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...
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...
Nicholas Waller
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May 1, 2009 6:18 pm
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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...
Nicholas Waller
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May 1, 2009 7:37 pm
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I already had him on the Famous Fans list at http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Famous.html because of that article :) Steve...
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...
Nicholas Waller
nawaller@...
May 1, 2009 7:55 pm
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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...
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...
... 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....
Nicholas Waller
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May 1, 2009 9:36 pm
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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. ...
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...
"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...
... 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...
Nicholas Waller
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May 2, 2009 8:37 am
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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...
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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May 2, 2009 9:56 pm
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Or about the Alekhine book being in his jacket pocket....which she must have packed?? There are elements pointing both ways; deliberately ambiguous. Mark ... ...
... 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 ...
Nicholas Waller
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May 3, 2009 12:06 am
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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...
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...
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...
Nicholas Waller
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May 3, 2009 10:44 am
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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...
Nicholas Waller
nawaller@...
May 3, 2009 10:49 am
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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...
Nicholas Waller
nawaller@...
May 3, 2009 5:12 pm
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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,...
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.) ...
PnP@yahoogroups.com
May 3, 2009 11:01 pm
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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...
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,...
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...
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