DB7

I deleted some threads in the mod forum.

smudge

He's got the devil in him this week, he has !

Smudge

Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

Maralyn

Dear Rob Compton

Yes it was on BBC2 last Saturday at 2.45 pm not perhaps a good time of the day to notice it.

Best Wishes

Maralyn

DB7

Pipe down Lennie Godber.

Maralyn

My husbands a Phd - he's an archaeologist who specialises in human bones. He's very modest and only uses his doctor title in connection with his work. I knew a girl years ago who's husband was one and she'd take every opportunity to get it into the conversation. In the end we all nicknamed her PHd!


A hearty welcome to you Dr Amicus.

Maralyn

Maralyn

Dear TimR (sorry I've been calling you TimeR put itdown to old age which cometh more and more!)

Yes that scene with the bombing in Things to Come is probably the most powerful one. It made me cry when I first saw it because of what I was saying earlier about what was coming to us shortly.

I'm glad you love 'A Canterbury Tale'. It's a super film with a great cast and now seen as one of our classics. It wasn't that popular when it first hit the cinema but now it has risen like the phoenix for more and more people to enjoy.

Patricia Roc was a very popular actress during the forties. she was pretty and had an innocence about her which obviously appealed to the men. Pat often played second fiddle to the leading lady such as Margaret Lockwood in the 'The Wicked Lady' 'Love Story' and' 'Jassy' or Phyliss Calvert in 'Madonna of the Seven Moons' One of her best roles is as Celia in the semi documentary film 'Millions Like Us' about life in a munitions factory during the war. I don't know if any of these are available to you in the USA -keep a look out anyway.

Maralyn

Steve Crook

Maralyn,
You'll have to take a trip over to Kent next August bank holiday Sunday and join us in our annual location walk - unless you already do and I didn't recognise the name. See the PaPAS site for details and reports from previous location walks and other screenings and events in Canterbury

Steve

Steve Crook

PaPAS

Steve Crook

Obviously a family with good taste
There are a few Americans that know it, that Mr Scorsese for one. But it's not very well known there.

If you want to know a bit more about it, what about a book about the film?
It includes:
* More than 400 pictures, including original publicity stills
* Foreword by the film's stars, Sheila Sim (Lady Attenborough) and John Sweet
* Details of the film's locations in and around Canterbury 'then' and 'now'
* Reminiscences of members of the film's crew, cast, extras, and eye-witnesses who watched the film being made
* The amazing 'Canterbury Cathedral' set built at Denham Film Studios
* The film's world premiere in Canterbury in 1944 and its restoration and revival 30 years later
* Many details of director and producer Michael Powell's early life in Bekesbourne and Canterbury
* Recent events that have celebrated Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's achievements and introduced A Canterbury Tale to a new generation of film enthusiasts

We've done location walks for quite a few of the Powell & Pressburger films. But it'd be a very long walk to visit all the locations used in 49th Parallel

Steve

Steve Crook

PaPAS

TimR

Oh, I did not even notice!

"A Canterbury Tale" is not well known at all here - but it has a sort of cult following. That is, people who see it and like it tell others. That is how I found out about it - from a relative who lives in England.

Oh, that is why I have never heard of her - I do not know any of those films! I have plenty of homework to do.....

batman

Patricia Roc was also in 'The Brother' with the great Maxwell Reed ... the best film ever to feature a man with a dead fish strapped to his head!

Seriously, 'The Brothers' is worth a look .... Pat looks fantastic in it.

Bats.

I wish I had claws.

manager

Hi all, found the link here via a truck forum

Fellwanderer

Must be a fan of Hell Drivers, then

All the best
FELL

A signature is no substitute for a life

manager

and also "If"

Dr Amicus

Basically, I made it up!

Sussex University accepted me with my proposal to write about Amicus in the broader area of British Horror Cinema. With my supervisor, Andy Medhurst (as spotted on British Film Forever!), I worked out a research plan and Thesis outline. Various avenues got left behind (a vague idea to carry out some audience research on fans for example) and new ones opened (I did a bit more on the Doug McClure films than I had originally intended).

A couple of films eluded me (Just For Fun, Danger Route, What Became of Jack and Jill) - but I'm always on the lookout for these if and when I get round to turning it into a book.

Basically, it's an analysis of the films and their place in wider British fantastic cinema - trying to make an argument that they are reasonably consistent, that there is an 'Amicus' film, if not quite to the same extent that there is a 'Hammer' film. There were chapters on the anthologies, the non-anthology horrors, the science fiction films (I managed to say something reasonably interesting about They Came From Beyond Space and The Terrornauts!), the McClure films, Freddie Francis and Roy Ward Baker as auteurs, and a chapter comparing I Monster and The Beast Must Die to Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Curse of the Werewolf & Legend of the Werewolf. I also managed to give papers on Michael Ripper (hurrah!) and another at a Widescreen Conference about the Dr Who films.

Good times....

Incidentally, one of my friends up there wrote hers on Vivian Stanshall and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (what I heard of it was very interesting), and another wrote about Lavender Hill Mob (tying it in to Queer theory I think - I didn't necessarily understand it all...)

Fellwanderer

You certainly like living life on the edge! My passion is, shall we say, a tad more subdued - not that anyone is going to believe that!

All the best
FELL

A signature is no substitute for a life