I Am a Camera

[Juniper]

Henry Cornelius' 1955 film I Am a Camera is getting released on 8th November.

[will.15]

Never saw that one, but read the play it was based on. Closer to Cabaret the movie than the stage version, but no sex stuff and Nazis minimum.

[Marky B]

name='Juniper' timestamp='1282316723' post='466343']

Henry Cornelius' 1955 film I Am a Camera is getting released on 8th November.

I haven't seen the film,but I remember reading about a critic's quip:I Am A Camera - Me No Leica.

Ta Ta

Marky B

[julian_craster]

The last edition didn't sell very well.....I purchased my DVD copy at POUNDLAND........

[GRAEME]

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I haven't seen the film,but I remember reading about a critic's quip:I Am A Camera - Me No Leica.

Ta Ta

Marky B

That was Walter Kerr's immortal wit! As played by David Niven in Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960), by the way.



To be fair to this rather entertaining film, Kerr was talking about the original stage production.

[Moor Larkin]

name='julian_craster' timestamp='1282323819' post='466374']The last edition didn't sell very well.....I purchased my DVD copy at POUNDLAND........

I got mine for a quid in some clearance bookshop too. It was on ebay for 99p for years, although I haven't noticed it recently. They must have flogged them all by now I guess..............



It's actually quite a good movie although very arch. Got a great cast too...........







The quip is credited to about half a dozen people , including Dorothy Parker.

[didi-5]

Good film - I got it from Poundland too ...

[DB7]

Bad film. Stiff direction, stagey and glosses over the decadence. If you've watched it once that''s enough.

[batman]

There was a trio of Larry Harvey films on the same label that were going really cheap via Poundland, ebay etc ...



I Am A Camera

Three Men In A Boat

Silent Enemy

[Moor Larkin]

name='DB7' timestamp='1282338672' post='466475']Bad film. Stiff direction, stagey and glosses over the decadence.

It was refused certification in America or some such controversy, because of the unambigious references to abortion... or getting pregnant outside the sacrament of marraige - or both... They also had trouble advertising it on TV over there, for the same reasons. I think I recall reading a piece by the immortal Hedda Hopper about it, even !!



I'm not sure it glossed over the decadence, so much as just used it as a plotline. The elongated scene of a *wild party* thrown by the millionaire American boyfriend is not exactly steamy stuff, but it reeks of a monetary decadence of a sort. The brief appearance of a couple of Nazi uniforms in almost the closing moments of the movie has a strange (perhaps unintentional) power possibly because the subject was largely ignored throughout the movie until then; a metaphor for the way it actually all happened perhaps.