It takes a special kind of nerd to walk through the streets of London obsessively looking at the driver of every taxi in the hopes of spotting Tony from the Up films. That was me on Saturday during a brisk walk through the rain on my way to catch a train to Sheffield for this year’s Doc/Fest. Also in that wet walk: a brief stop at Covent Garden for a feeling of disappointment that it doesn’t look as it does in Lindsay Anderson‘s 1957 short Every Day Except Christmas. Or My Fair Lady – because I’m not just into docs. I also stopped into the original Forbidden Planet to look at Doctor Who toys and almost bought a t-shirt that says “Keep Calm and Don’t Blink.” Again, a special kind of nerd. The last time I was in England was 1995, for an art class trip. In those days, I...
- 6/9/2014
- by Nonfics.com
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
CineVue were honoured guests of American Express this past Thursday for a screening of three extraordinary film treasures from the BFI National Archive, as part of the Watch This Space Festival at London's National Theatre Flytower. The selected films - Momma Don't Allow (1956), Lindsay Anderson's Every Day Except Christmas (1957) and Nice Time (1957) - provided a compelling, and at times hilarious insight into post-war British domestic life, and are some of the finest pieces to come from the Free Cinema movement.
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- 9/24/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
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