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Miranda BBC2, Monday 8.30pm Miranda Hart’s Radio 4 sitcom, Miranda Hart’s Joke Shop, makes a transfer to television — it shares a central character called Miranda who runs a joke shop. And the central character, and premise, is pretty much based around Hart’s comedy persona...
South Downs Living magazine online (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Army and Afghan Appeal Raceday at Plumpton Racecourse on Monday 16th November is unique, helping both the military and civilian victims of the conflict in Afghanistan. The event raises funds for The Army Benevolent Fund and Sandy Gall’s Afghanistan Appeal. Plumpton’s Chief Executive Claire Sheppard said, “The Raceday has already raised more than £100,000 for the Army And Afghan...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Born: 31 March, 1922, in Hull, Yorkshire. Died: 21 October, 2009, in London, aged 87.Lionel Davidson was a noted thriller writer whose novels brought to life far-flung settings such as Prague, Tibet, Israel and Siberia.Davidson wrote eight novels for adults, among them Night of Wenceslas (1960) and Kolymsky Heights (1994), as well as several novels for young people. All eight of his adult novels are...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Born: 31 March, 1922, in Hull, Yorkshire. Died: 21 October, 2009, in London, aged 87.Lionel Davidson was a noted thriller writer whose novels brought to life far-flung settings such as Prague, Tibet, Israel and Siberia.Davidson wrote eight novels for adults, among them Night of Wenceslas (1960) and Kolymsky Heights (1994), as well as several novels for young people. All eight of his adult novels are...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Appointment In London12:30am Monday, 02 Nov 2009 Repeat CC G The officer of a British bomber squadron in World War Two is excluded from the team for a mission. When a member of his crew is injured prior to take off, he steps in as a gunner. CAST: Dirk Bogarde DIR: Philip Leacock (1952)
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Did I say I was running out of material with 'The Mind Benders' ? Scratch that. 'The Mind Benders' is freakin' 'Rashomon' compared to 'The Wind Cannot Read' . Directed by - it's that man again! - Ralph Thomas from a novel by Richard Mason, 'The Wind Cannot Read' is the kind of they-don't-make-'em-like-that-anymore melodrama that perfectly demonstrates why they don't make 'em like that anymore. The...
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
It is Dirk Bogarde's collaborations with Joseph Losey (five films) and Luchino Visconti (two films) that are made the most of by the critics. But what of his four-film association with Basil Dearden? It was under Dearden's direction that the world got its first glimpse of the dark side of Dirk - as Tom Riley in 'The Blue Lamp' . They did their finest work together with 'Victim' - an incredibly brave,...
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Nore - in Godalming, Surrey - was the last and most extravagant of the country houses Dirk Bogarde owned in England before he upped sticks for France and settled in a Provence farmhouse. Set in ten acres, it was more of an estate, with two cottages and a studio in addition to the house itself, which boasted ten bedrooms and eight bathrooms. Bogarde and his manager/partner Tony Forwood paid £40,000...
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Ah, the great and prolific actor/director relationships: John Wayne and John Ford, Robert de Niro and Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, Dirk Bogarde and Basil Dearden Joseph Losey Ralph Thomas. Bollocks! It pains me to discuss the Bogarde/Thomas relationship (nine films together compared to the five he made with Losey and the four with Dearden) since Thomas was a journeyman director and...
Later On (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
I’m watching A Bridge Too Far again, and I must say that the opening, pre-title sequence does a masterful job of setting the context while using astonishing footage. The bombing run alone made my jaw drop. If you’re a Netflix subscriber, you can watch that opening right now at the link. In fact, the whole movie’s [...]
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Promiscuity. Infidelity. Celebrity. Degeneracy. Sex 'n' snobbery. Orgies. Abortion. Kleptomania. By rights, 'Darling' ought to be a full-throttle, rip-snorting (or coke-snorting) lurid delight, a guilty pleasure of the highest order. In the hands of Russ Meyer it could have been a trashy soft-core romp a la 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls' . With Richard Lester at the helm, it might have been the bona...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
UK Feature Film Directors: Ralph Smart, Harold French, Arthur Crabtree, Ken Annakin Writers: R.C. Sherriff, W. Somerset Maugham Cinematographers: Ray Elton, Reg Wyer Composer: John Greenwood Cast: Jack Watling, Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Honor Blackman, George Cole, Susan Shaw, Hermione Baddeley, Cecil Parker, Nora Swinburne Adapted from a quartet of W. Somerset Maugham stories, this is generally...
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
'King & Country' - the very title just the first of several bitter pills the viewer is forced to swallow - was the third of Dirk Bogarde's five collaborations with Joseph Losey. For me, it's second only to 'The Servant' . Powerful, unflinching and bludgeoningly grim, it's no surprise it did sod all at the box office. Forty-five years on, its impact is undiminished. This is partly because of Losey's...
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
I started this blog in November 2007. Less than a month after my inaugural post, two events coincided: I found myself laid up ill and my wife (then my girlfriend) took pity on me and bought me the 'Screen Icons' Dirk Bogarde box set to cheer me up. I was off work a week and watched all seven of the DVDs in the set in short order - and blogged about them just as rapidly. Bogarde has long been my favourite...
All The (Useless) Info... (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
By Daryl Stevens We have reviews of some movies listed below. To find movie downloads do a search. A good starting point might be "Movie Download Services", after that try "Download films Online" or "Unlimited DVD Rentals". The Sea Shall Not Have Them: British bomber airplane is taken down into the sea throughout WW2 and a huge effort is made to rescue it. Cast includes...
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