http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/ Forum for the discussion of old and new film-related books, magazines and publications. en Sun, 19 May 2013 22:17:35 GMT vBulletin 120 http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/images/styles/brit/misc/rss.png http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/ http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114980-spanish-british-horror-mag-pt-2-a.html Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:23:25 GMT I know there's limited interest, but I have to tell someone... this month Spanish film magazine Dirigido Por publishes the second part of its analysis of British Horror of the 60s and 70s. Last month was almost exclusively Amicus, and this month it's the turn of Tempean, Anglo-Amalgamated, Compton, Tigon British, Herman Cohen, Charlemagne and Tyburn ... of which my sum knowledge basically comes from this article. The photos are great - the first spread is Vincent Price in Witchfinder General, then the blinded woman from Horrors of the Black Museum alongside Roger Moore chatting to Robert S. Baker ... I'll do some scans, because it's a pleasure to read this kind of thing so neatly illustrated. From the sublime (The Curse of the Crimson Altar, A Study in Terror) to the ridiculous but much loved (Trog, The Blood Beast Terror - considered by Peter Cushing as his worst film), this article is a lot of fun, and good for my Spanish.

DP 1.pngDP 2.png ]]> Publications Rowdon http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114980-spanish-british-horror-mag-pt-2-a.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114950-filming-dambusters.html Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:32:12 GMT Whilst browsing around my local library,I came across this book,Filming The Dambusters by Jonathan Falconer,with a forward by Richard Todd. Not a... Whilst browsing around my local library,I came across this book,Filming The Dambusters by Jonathan Falconer,with a forward by Richard Todd. Not a member of the library,so I couldn't borrow it.
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Marky B:thumbsup: ]]> Publications Marky B http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114950-filming-dambusters.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114942-william-boyds-new-james-bond-novel-title-announced.html Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:41:01 GMT William Boyd ...
"Titles are very important to me and as soon as I wrote down Solo on a sheet of paper I saw its potential. Not only did it fit the theme of the novel perfectly, it's also a great punchy word, instantly and internationally comprehensible, graphically alluring and, as an extra bonus, it's strangely Bondian in the sense that we might be subliminally aware of the '00' of '007' lurking just behind those juxtaposed O's of SOLO …"

"In my novel, events conspire to make Bond go off on a self-appointed mission of his own, unannounced and without any authorization," the writer added.

Ian Fleming Publications, who look after the literary James Bond brand, said the title fitted "perfectly alongside the other books in the Bond canon".

Richard Cable, managing director of the book's publishers Vintage called Solo an "absolutely brilliant book".
Boyd is the third author to be invited by the Fleming estate to write an official Bond novel.

He follows in the footsteps of the American thriller writer Jeffery Deaver, who wrote Carte Blanche in 2011, and Sebastian Faulks, whose Devil May Care was released in 2008.

Boyd said he "accepted at once" when offered the chance to take on the famous spy franchise. Solo will be published on 26 September in the UK.
Sources: The Guardian/BBC News

Co-incidentally, it was Ian Fleming who created the character of Napoleon Solo - The Man From UNCLE.
Emma ]]> Publications mrs_emma_peel http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114942-william-boyds-new-james-bond-novel-title-announced.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114820-damn-you-scarlet-o-hara.html Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:32:15 GMT Just picked up the book called damn you scarlet o hara About the private lives of Lawrence Oliver and Vivienne Leigh which had some awesome... Just picked up the book called damn you scarlet o hara

About the private lives of Lawrence Oliver and Vivienne Leigh which had some awesome stuff iin it no idea if it's true but it's a very interesting read and also reading about people of the 30s inc Flynn coward and ad for tallish Bankhead well she sounds like she lived life to the full
like all books written about the long dead stars but I guess they're I'd an element of truth somewhere ]]> Publications Dadwasinflame http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114820-damn-you-scarlet-o-hara.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114762-evelyn-foster-murder-fraud-robert-dixon.html Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:48:42 GMT Hi people . has anyone read this book at all ? it is in regard to a young woman tax driver who was set on fire along with her taxi in 1931 outside... Hi people . has anyone read this book at all ?
it is in regard to a young woman tax driver who was set on fire along with her taxi
in 1931 outside otturburn in northumberland. ]]> Publications howardmitchell http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114762-evelyn-foster-murder-fraud-robert-dixon.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114721-conversations-cinematographers.html Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:39:56 GMT I can highly recommend this excellent collection of interviews with some of the greatest British cinematographers of the last 60 years including: ... I can highly recommend this excellent collection of interviews with some of the greatest British cinematographers of the last 60 years including:

• Douglas Slocombe (Kind Hearts and Coronets, Julia, Raiders of the Lost Ark)
• Oswald Morris (The Guns of Navarone, Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver!)
• Christopher Challis (A Shot in the Dark, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Top Secret!)
• Billy Williams (Women in Love, The Wind and the Lion, Gandhi)
• Freddie Francis (Sons and Lovers, The Elephant Man, Glory)
• Chris Menges (The Killing Fields, The Mission, The Reader)
• John De Borman (The Full Monty, Hamlet, An Education)
• Gilbert Taylor (Dr. Strangelove, A Hard Day's Night, Frenzy, Star Wars)
• Jack Cardiff (Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, The African Queen)
• Nicolas Roeg (Fahrenheit 451, Far from the Madding Crowd, Petulia)
• Alex Thomson (Excalibur, Legend, Hamlet)
• Walter Lassally (Tom Jones, Zorba the Greek, Heat and Dust)
• Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire, The Last King of Scotland, 127 Hours)

Beautifully presented in hardcover, it isn't cheap (£33) but well worth having and full of fascinating info.

(Do excuse my typo in the title.) ]]> Publications pelam123 http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114721-conversations-cinematographers.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114701-frenzy-hitchcocks-last-masterpiece.html Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:32:30 GMT Well, ‘no’ would be my short answer to that, and I’d argue that a recent book on the development, production and reception of the film is no...

Well, ‘no’ would be my short answer to that, and I’d argue that a recent book on the development, production and reception of the film is no masterpiece either. But the unambiguously titled Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece by Professor Raymond Foery (Scarecrow Press, 2012) is a serviceable work of film history, and presents some rather tasty morsels of information, courtesy of the author’s access to the film’s original production files.While I don’t think we can convincingly mention Frenzy the same breath as Hitch’s true ‘last masterpieces’, Psycho and The Birds, neither would I fully agree with the view of the great Leslie Halliwell, who didn’t mince his words when he called it ‘has-been, unconvincing, cliché-ridden … an old man’s sex suspenser’.For me, the film remains — perhaps against my better judgement — a highly satisfying little thriller. And what I would like to look at here is how some of its perceived weaknesses may actually be its strengths... Read more here: http://bit.ly/ZKgg6e

]]> Publications Ju Upton http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114701-frenzy-hitchcocks-last-masterpiece.html http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/publications/114677-spanish-amicus-magazine.html Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:41:41 GMT Sorry - slightly misleading title. It's just this month's edition of Spanish film magazine "Dirigido Por", which is the best monthly here for reviews and critique. They did a nice 50th anniversary James Bond edition, and this month it's part one of a British Horror Film Dossier, entitled "Amicus - in Hammer's shadow". The articles of interest cover about 30 pages of the 90 page magazine - there's 12 pages on Amicus Presents, 14 on Horror Anthologies, and then a four page article on three Curtis Harrington "Underground Horrors" that are being released on DVD (yes- he's not British, but he's 'of interest', isn't he).
The other 60 pages are reviews of the new stuff coming out and general film-related stuff, so it may not be worth sending off to Spain for ... but isn't it nice to have a cover like this on the shelves?

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