smudge

I think I know where you mean - just over the bridge ; here...

Robertson's of Whitby - licensed fish restaurant and fish & chips takeaway

Garrigas - just along from the Drac Experience does the most amazing spanish omlettes ; they come out the size of a flying saucer...gorgeous.

Smudge

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batman

That's the one .... really good food from there. We have relatives who live near York and we'll be visiting them in August. Garrigas sounds good too.

Bats .

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

clitheroekid

Just look for the long queues - that's The Magpie Cafe

smudge

KIPPS -

Until relatively recently, I wasn't a particularly great fan of Michael Redgrave's performances, other than the excellent DEAD OF NIGHT ventriloquist sequence. However, I now find him steadily growing on me more and more. Thanks to CH4 I have just discovered Carol Reed's KIPPS - in which Redgrave is disarmingly charming as H.G. Wells' innocent abroad.

Redgrave gets good support from a lovely Phyllis Calvert and a marvellously crawly piece of playing from Max Adrian as Coote. A bit of casting against type for the usually dashing Michael Wilding as a fraudulent solicitor in this one.

A wry satire on money, morals and the middle class, Sidney Gilliatt's adaptation kept me glued to the screen from start to finish...

Smudge

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harryfielder

That was two of us that watched it Smudge,,,Loved it...

Some good faces in there....

Aitch,

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Hanseat

Make that three, smudge and harryfielder. Had not seen this one before, but was quite taken with it - in fact, I ended up taking a break from work to watch it. Especially liked Redgrave flustering when trying to explain why he had agreed to build the new bigger house after all.

Hanseat

No I'm not in Spain, dear, I'm in agony, that's where I am!

Steve Crook

If you're not too familiar with Michael redgrave's work, check him out in The Lady Vanishes (1938), The Browning Version (1951) The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), The Dambusters (1954) and The Night My Number Came Up (1955). He was one of the breed of great stage actors that made their way to films in the 40s & 50s. There was often the tendency to be slightly "stagey", but a great actor.

And of course he did found the dynasty that gave us Lynn, Corin & Vanessa Redgrave and then Natasha & Joely Richardson and Jemma Redgrave.

Steve

Windthrop

Redgrave's film career did less well as a character actor than as a leading man curiously. After 'The Innocents' he didn't realy get in many great flicks - bar 'The Go Between'.

He did continue his stage work until the late '70s till Parkinsons disease put an end to his regular work.

batman

I enjoyed his performance in The Quiet American with Audie Murphy, although the film is a travesty of the book.

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

smudge

I have been familiar with his work for a while, but never really considered myself a 'fan' as it were. Then I came across THUNDER ROCK (I think after a recommendation here, actually...) and my opinion started to change.

I always thought he was 'solid' as Barnes in DAMBUSTERS and perhaps a little too diffident in BROWNING ; haven't watched THE NIGHT MY NUMBER CAME UP in a while so will have to re-visit it.

Funnily enough, watching the founder of the 'dynasty' has made me feel that the offspring haven't quite lived up to him in the acting stakes...

SMUDGE

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penfold

On the subject of Michael Redgrave, a mention should go to his performance in The Captive Heart, the best of the POW movies IMHO....
Me, I've been watching All Night Long, released by Network. I bought it to pass on to a US contact, wouldn't have bothered myself as I'm not a jazz fan, and there is plenty of it....but this is a bit good ; it's a take on Othello, re-set in a Jazz warehouse party in early 60's London; Othello is a US bandleader played by Paul Harris - very impressive, though I don't know him; the Desdemona is his retired singer wife; Iago is a jazz drummer who wants to bring her out of retirement for his benefit, played by Patrick McGoohan, Cassio is a sax player cum road manager played by Keith Michell....and meanwhile in the background you have such as Mingus, Tubby Hayes, Dave Brubeck and Johnny Dankworth. Interesting on many levels; for a '61 film the drugtaking is explicit but adultly handled; and the same applies to the two mixed-race relationships in the film. The race issue is never mentioned...nice noirish atmosphere, good camerawork, and a lovely print....

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

batman

I watched this last night as well after seeing your 'name that film'. I have had it for ages but never seemed to be in the mood to watch it. I, too, think it is a very good film. Good performances and great music .... and a pretty good plot to work from!

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Carmel

I was off work sick yesterday and i sat down and watched My mothers house on TCM and really enjoyed it i had not seen this film in a long time and i must admit very powerful film, glad i watched it.

smudge

THE RISE AND RISE OF MICHAEL RIMMER (1970)

At last, thanks to the clearsightedness of Digital Classics DVD I finally got to see this film as it was intended to be seen...

A couple of things put me off at first - knowing about the real Peter Cook I couldn't help but think at the start that his natural smugness kept breaking through. Then I had the feeling that this was a bit of self-indulgent Pythoning (the Cleese factor).

However, pretty soon thereafter I was drawn into the film itself as the mysterious, Machiavellian, manipulator that was Michael Rimmer wormed his way round people, through the plot and up the political ladder.

So, what was it all about ? Search me ! Was it a satire on politics ? A putdown of the seething masses ? Or simply a quick dig at the media in the modern world ? As yet I am undecided. I think it is intriguing yet ultimately unfulfilling. Once Rimmer achieves his ultimate ambition I was left feeling, "...then what ?"

It did strike me as being ahead of its time in some respects though, so much so that it might have been titled The Rise And Rise Of Tony Blair...

(Now to watch it again with the commentary on...)

Nice use of 60s Walton-on-Thames as Nuneaton though !

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GUNS AT BATASI (1964)

John Guillermin's character driven piece about the vicissitudes of political life in an African state post-independence, set in an army camp where a handover is taking place.

Richard Attenborough gives a fair performance as a career soldier who's been waiting all his life for his own proper war. Once the opportunity comes to him during a coup d'etat, his moment of 'glory' leaves him confused and questioning his lifelong loyalties.

The supporting characters (played by the likes of David Lodge, Graham Stark and Percy Herbert) are pretty much stereotypical army types - the dodger, the scholar, the muscles, the quiet reliable type, etc. but are drawn in such a way as to make you concerned about them, thus creating a degree of tension when things start to look bad.

Some good roles for Earl Cameron as the legitimate C.O. and Errol John as the coup leader. Also some roles for women where the characters didn't fall apart once the trouble started ; Mia Farrow as a stray UN worker and Flora Robson as a visiting M.P.

Ultimately, for all his spit-and-polish and by-the-book mentality, Attenborough's RSM is an intelligent and resourceful man and you do feel his sense of betrayal at the end of the film.

Worth a viewing.

SMUDGE

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A Pemberton

London to Brighton 2006

This is an extraordinary raw modern British film,a story of a young homeless girl Joanna(Georgia Groom), and Kelly(Lorraine Stanley), a prostitute, on the run to Brighton from London from
some of the nastiest villians ever on screen,told in flashback and with some real intense and excellent close up cinematography.
The girls journey over 24 hours is a real rollercoaster of emotions,you cant help but cry sympathy for their plight.
The story is bleak and at times very uncomfortable to watch ,in all honesty I have never heard or seen
any of the cast or heard of the director (Paul Williams) before but there is some real emerging talent here for the British industry to nurture.


Id like to recommend the movie but it comes with a warning of deeply unsettling scenes, topics and situations packaged in a real powerhouse of a film