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Category Archives: film
Nineteen 61 Revisited
The next Rock ‘N Roll Years post is that of 1961. You can find it below but first as I’ve done a couple of times before I’ve selected some of the films released that year and stuck them in a … Continue reading
Posted in film, music, rock n roll years
Tagged akira kurosawa, alain resnais, anthony mann, bernard hermann, blake edwards, bryan forbes, cy endfield, fidel castro, ingmar bergman, j lee thompson, jack clayton, joan greenwood, luis buñuel, Marlon Brando, michael curtiz, michaelangelo antonioni, ray harryhausen, sergio leone, setsuko hara, yasujirō ozu
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Summer in Marseille
At last I have got my film of the Bristol Cream 2016 tour to Marseille ready and here it is. It speaks for itself really but I haven’t gone to the trouble of giving it any credits in itself so … Continue reading
Images
this is the first part of a two part series where i present some snaps taken mostly late at night on my way home from somewhere i walk a lot usually the same old streets but there’s a number of … Continue reading
Posted in film, images, music
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triumph of the west ii
From Socrates to Caesar to Jesus to Constantine to Marx with a lot of wisdom and beautiful images in between.
Posted in film, images, music, triumph of the west
Tagged constantine, jesus, jm roberts, julius caesar, karl marx, socrates
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Quicktime Problems
I am aware that there are problems viewing the films in that the controls at the bottom of the film don’t work currently (or at least not in all browsers). In order to watch a film click on it and … Continue reading
Newcomers part 3
The last episode of The Newcomers ties it all up and ends with a birth. It’s shorter than the first 2 episodes and comes in at just over 40 minutes. The ending I have is a bit abrupt but I’m … Continue reading
Posted in film
Tagged bristol, clifton heights, john boorman, lou reed, the newcomers
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The Newcomers Part 2
The 2nd episode of The Newcomers is again well worth a watch for a number of reasons. One of the main of which for me is the ability to see the streets I wander round today as they looked 50 … Continue reading
MCMLVII
the next episode of the rock ‘n’ roll years covers 1957. i’ve put together a list of some of the classic films of that year. the choice is fairly arbitrary and it could well be that i haven’t actually seen … Continue reading
Posted in birds, film, rock n roll years
Tagged akira kurosawa, alec guiness, cecil parker, Charles Chaplin, david lean, delmer daves, doc holliday, elvis presley, federico fellini, fred astaire, george cukor, giulietta masina, glenn ford, ingmar bergman, jack arnold, jack hawkins, joan of arc, john sturges, lewis gilbert, luchino visconti, macbeth, otto preminger, richard thorpe, sidney lumet, stanley donen, van heflin, yasujirō ozu
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The Newcomers Part 1
About 15 years ago somebody my next door neighbour I think lent me a VHS tape which contained the 3 episodes of a documentary set in Bristol in the early 60s. It was directed by John Boorman who was working … Continue reading
one plus one
my first post youtube step towards moving image representation begins here with a bbc archive clip of jean-luc godard which is the item i was in the process of trying to upload when the whole thing changed for me. the … Continue reading
Posted in film, may
Tagged anne wiazemsky, jean-luc godard, may 1968, the rolling stones
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