An award-winning film editor, Hungarian émigré and friend of Alexander Korda, Teddy Darvas was a dedicated film enthusiast who worked with David Lean, the Boulting Brothers and Vittorio De Sica. I first met him when I was a film editor in the 1960s and renewed my acquaintance when researching a book on David Lean in the '90s. I found him such a fount of information that I went back repeatedly....
Today's guest post comes courtesy of the brilliant and funny lady behind Loose Leaf Tigers -- a blog dedicated to girl crushes, great art, and gasp-worthy fashion finds... B onjour! It is such an honor for me to be guest posting here at Nothing Elegant; one of the most stylish, eclectic and intelligent blogs i have come across. I visit here almost every day, and so should you! With winter fast approaching,...
Blithe Spirit **** A 1945 film by David Lean with Rex Harrison and Margaret Rutherford - seances, ghosts and jealous wives - a cracker of a film from an England long gone. Madame Arcati and the Seance
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) : Christie was born in Chabua, Assam, India, then part of the British Empire, the first of two children of Rosemary (née Ramsden) and Frank St. John Christie. Christie's father ran the tea plantation around which Christie grew up. ... She first gained notice as Liz, the friend and would-be lover of the eponymous Billy Liar (1963) played by Tom Courtenay...
Noël Coward’s “Brief Encounter” makes its New York premiere in Brooklyn next month.An adaptation of the 1946 film of the same name, the play, directed by David Lean and based on “Still Life,” a Noël Coward one-act first seen a decade earlier, begins ...
John Williams will be making a return to Chicago for performances on November 28 and 29. Though Star Wars isn't a focus of the performance, its still John Williams for crying out loud!From :"John Williams returns to Symphony Center after his sold-out performances in 2008 to conduct a tribute to the legendary movie director David Lean hosted by eminent British actor Michael York, and selections...
Some revealing background: As an indication of the election’s importance to the United States, [Ambassador Christopher] Hill was seen shuttling back and forth between the offices of various political parties all day Sunday in an effort to pressure them to...
The Point of No Return blog was set up about five years ago to spotlight the forgotten plight of a million Jews driven out of Arab and Muslim countries. Although born in the UK, blogger Bataween, a journalist and mother...
Do you remember the scene in David Lean's epic film, Lawrence of Arabia, where Colonel TE Lawrence, to shouts of "Aurens! Aurens!" rides back to his Bedouin allies in the company of... mercenaries? "Killers, cutthroats," say the disgusted princes and...
To admirers of David Lean’s epic film Lawrence of Arabia, the outline of the traditional Arab garments in a cabinet at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford should be instantly familiar.
Wallowed in David Lean's spectacular film of EM Foster's 'Passage to India'on Saturday afternoon on Channel Five. The scenes at the club in the film reminded me of Madras Club in my hometown. The film caused controversy when the rock caves were blasted to create the scene that David Lean wanted. As Ian Jack of the Times wrote it was almost as sacrilegious as blasting Stonehenge. Media hype I suppose,...
Alan Catlin had alerted me that David Chorlton would be passing through the Albany area so I invited him to come & read at a "salon" at my house, in an intimate setting with select Albany poets. David Chorlton has lived in Phoenix since 1978 but he was born in Austria & grew up in Manchester, close to rain and the northern English industrial zone. He is the winner of Slipstream 's...
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