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Hy Bender, Yassi Soufi, and Eric Trommater tackle Tony Richardson's 1961 adaptation of Shelaugh Delaney's play. It's got everything. Inter-Racial kissing. A vaguely homosexual character. An Angry Young Woman. Kitchen Sink Realism par excellence! Of course we loved it!
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With Yassi Soufi, Hy Bender, Sila Blume, and Vern. Dystopian drama starring Clive Owen, Michael Cain, and Juliane Moore.
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**Originally Recorded Jan 4th 2024** -
Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasance, and Donald Sutherland star in this adaptation of Jack Higgins' novel about German Paratroopers attempting to kidnap Winston Churchill.
With Hy Bender and Kathy Edge.
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We celebrate the 80th anniversary of D-Day with Special Guest Erin Brown, an Independent Filmmaker (and self described history nerd) as she takes us through UK Cinema and The Second World War.
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June 6th: "The Eagle Has Landed" (1976) starring Michael Caine.
June 13th: "The Hounds of the Baskervilles" (1959) Starring Peter Cushing.
June 20th "A Taste of Honey" (1961) Directed by Tony Richardson.
June 27th: "A Night to Remember" (1958) Starring Kenneth More.
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Technical difficulties screwed up our first discussion of Derek Jarman's portrait of the 16th Century artist Michaelangelo Caravaggio so we did it again. As we were recording history was being made in a NYC courthouse!
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**Originally Recorded May 23rd, 2024**
Remade in 2006 with Queen Latifah the 1950 original features Alec Guinness, Sid James, and Kay Walsh in a black Comedy from the pen of J.B. Priestly.
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"I belong to generation of men, most of whom aren't here any more. And we all did the same thing for the same reason no matter what we thought about politics. Now that's all over and done with and we're carrying on, the best we can, just as though nothing had happened. But as a matter of fact, several things happened, and one of 'em was, this country suddenly got tired. She's tired now. But the old lady's got stamina, make no mistake about that, and it's up to us ordinary people to keep things steady. And that's your job, and just you remember it."
Nöel Coward's play following a family between the two world wars. David Lean's first solo film as director.
With Eric Trommater, Yassi Soufi and Sila Blume.
*Recorded May 16th, 2024*
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"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'"
Shakespeare's history of The Battle of Agincourt, adapted by Laurence Olivier. With Yassi Soufi, Hy Bender, Matt Bradley-Tschirgi and Eric Trommater.
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**Originally Recorded May 9th, 2024** -
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"Well, there are more ways than one of getting close to your ancestors. Follow the old road, and as you walk, think of them and of the old England. They climbed Chillingbourne Hill, just as you. They sweated and paused for breath just as you did today. And when you see the bluebells in the spring and the wild thyme, and the broom and the heather, you're only seeing what their eyes saw. You ford the same rivers. The same birds are singing. When you lie flat on your back and rest, and watch the clouds sailing, as I often do, you're so close to those other people, that you can hear the thrumming of the hoofs of their horses, and the sound of the wheels on the road, and their laughter and talk, and the music of the instruments they carried. And when I turn the bend in the road, where they too saw the towers of Canterbury, I feel I've only to turn my head, to see them on the road behind me."
The first of our series on 1944 in film as we celebrate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
**Originally Recorded May 2nd, 2024**
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"War. War never changes "
Amazon's "Fallout" discussion continues.
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**Originally Recorded April 23rd, 2024** -
"War. War never changes."
Fallout, based on the popular video game series, is not UK Cinema. Johnathan Nolan is kinda British, but that's a stretch. We just liked the show and wanted to do a room on it and we did.
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**Originally Recorded April 18th, 2024** -
“Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown "
Shakespeare's Henry IV parts I and II telescoped through fat, jolly Falstaff, with a line or two from Henry V and Merry Wives of Windsor thrown in for good measure.
**Originally Recorded April 25th, 2024**
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"I am not an animal. I am a human being!"
**Originally Recorded April 18th, 2024**
Producer Mel Brooks and director David Lynch team up to tell the story of John/ Joseph Merrick.
With Eric Trommater and Sila Blume.
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"You're a jumped up pantry boy who doesn't know his place!"
Anthony Shaffer adapts his play in this twisty, misty, mystery. With Sila Blume and Hy Bender.
**Originally Recorded April 11th, 2024**
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"You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught."
Boris Pasternak adapted by Robert Bolt with Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, and Sir Alec Guinness.
**Originally Recorded March 28th, 2024**
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"You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us ... But if you are interested in life it never lets you down. I am interested in the blueness of cheese. You don't do crosswords, do you, Mr. Wormold? I do, and they are like people: one reaches an end. I can finish any crossword within an hour, but I have a discovery concerning the blueness of cheese that will never come to a conclusion."
Carol Reed and Graham Greene reunite, over a decade after "The Third Man." With Sila Blume, Hy Bender, and Yassi Soufi
**Originally Recorded April 4th, 2024**
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"I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me."
The most popular of the so-called Kitchen-Sink Dramas adapts Alan Sillitoe's novel starring Albert Finney. With Yassi Soufi, Hy Bender, and Sila Blume.
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**Originally Recorded March 21st, 2024** - Vis mere
