Bojan Scores
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Post by Bojan Scores on Feb 5, 2021 10:21:09 GMT
My particular favourites are ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ and ‘The Leather Boys’. I saw ‘This Sporting Life’ for the first time on TPTV and enjoyed it a great deal. It does however feel like a stage play in some sections (not untypical of its time), while the first two films I mention have a more cinematic narrative and flow. Rachel Roberts was in two of those films and was a great talent and easily draws your attention to her characterisations and performance, a great shame that she had a troubled life.
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Post by Vienna on Feb 5, 2021 14:34:20 GMT
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is one of my favourites. It was rated as one of the best British films of all time by the BFI in their 100 greatest films list back in the 90s. However, both my parents went with friends to see it at the cinema in 1960 and didn't think much of it! Vi
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Feb 5, 2021 15:49:14 GMT
Only seen Up the Junction and Spring and Port wine from the list, both very good indeed. My mother saw Alfie on its release and was disappointed too!
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Post by Charles Bronson on Feb 5, 2021 19:25:12 GMT
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is one of my favourites. It was rated as one of the best British films of all time by the BFI in their 100 greatest films list back in the 90s. However, both my parents went with friends to see it at the cinema in 1960 and didn't think much of it! Vi Albert Finney's Character in the film, Arthur Seaton is portrayed as working at the Raleigh bicycle factory in Nottingham I believe? I wonder if the factory is still there? Somehow I doubt it.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Mar 15, 2021 20:57:18 GMT
I've been reading a very good of biography of Sean Connery lately, and I was surprised to read that Woodfall films the company that made the early so called "Kitchen sink dramas" including S.N.A.S.M. was owned by John Osborne and Harry Saltzman who was one of the original James Bond Producers along with Cubby Broccoli. Apparently Harry got fed up with them and decided to go in for some escapism, so he joined up with Broccoli to launch the Bond films.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Mar 15, 2021 22:33:23 GMT
It is surprising Charles, the stereotype of Saltzman would be a cigar chomping type not interested in 'arty farty' films as they don't make money. The Harry Palmer films were I suppose a middle ground between social realism & Bond. Funny, Connery did the reverse, he got tired of Bond & looked for projects with more depth.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 24, 2021 8:42:16 GMT
I've never seen This Sporting Life but know of its reputation as a kitchen sink classic It was directed by Lindsay Anderson and is based on the 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award The film recounts the story of a rugby league footballer, Frank Machin, in Wakefield, a mining town in Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting life. Storey, a former professional rugby league footballer, also wrote the screenplay. Richard Harris plays Frank Machin Looking forward to it. I shall set the VHS this very day. I imagine the viewer can almost smell the tang of liniment, sweat, mud and fags. Lovely. This Sporting Life (Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel) is on Talking Pictures TV on Wednesday 3 February 23.25Anyone read the book? Is it worth a read? I've nearly finished watching This Sporting Life
A little disjointed but still compelling
More when I finish
I'd never have realised it was Lindsay Anderson if his name wasn't in the credits. His style certainly developed quite quickly after this (I love If, O Lucky Man, and Brittania Hospital)
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