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Being Hungarian is not Enough

Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

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Emeric Pressburger : The Life and Death of a Screenwriter

Faber and Faber Limited, 1994

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...But in England, at least in the England of my youth, the national dread of showing off and a too grim preoccupation with solid teamwork were not conducive to the development of the goalkeeper's art.Continental Europeans of Emmerich...

Friends and Mentors

Billy Wilder

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Emeric Pressburger : The Life and Death of a Screenwriter

Faber and Faber Limited, 1994

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...Schünzel: 'Pack your bags, Pressburger, we're going to Monte Carlo.'Pressburger: 'But Herr Schünzel, the film isn't set in Monte Carlo.'Schünzel: 'It will be by the time we're finished with it.'Within the space of a year, Emmerich found...

Other Archers

Billy Wilder

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Emeric Pressburger : The Life and Death of a Screenwriter

Faber and Faber Limited, 1994

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...Reprieved from total ruin, men may begin to breathe again and indulge in visions...In 1945, after more than a year's delay, The Archers were in a position to make A Matter of Life and Death (or AMOLAD, as it became known). The timing...

A Glimpse of the Future

Danny Powell

Danny Powell is a London-based teacher of media and film studies whose books include Studying British Cinema: The 1960s. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Studying British Cinema: The 1960s

Auteur, 2009

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...Films to watch: Victim (1961), The Leather Boys (1964) Sex The 1960s are perhaps best known for radically changing sexual attitudes and behaviour but until the latter part of the Sixties there was actually very little evidence of films...

Beginnings

Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

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Emeric Pressburger : The Life and Death of a Screenwriter

Faber and Faber Limited, 1994

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...My discovery of England... put new life into my most intimate memories.Vladimir Nabokov: The Real Life of Sebastian KnightKine Weekly, October 1942:It was a hectic period last week for Michael Powell on the Turkish bath sequence in The Life...

Blimp's Biography

Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

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Emeric Pressburger : The Life and Death of a Screenwriter

Faber and Faber Limited, 1994

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...Old Shatterhand was the cowboy hero in a series of Western novels written by the German Karl May. Although he had never artually been to America himself, May formulated the notion of the Wild West for several generations of Central European...

The Curse of Frankenstein

Marcus Harmes

Marcus Harmes

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Auteur, 2015

Focused Study

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...Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office returns: The Curse of Frankenstein was big business. The 1957 film is the first to bring together in a horror movie the 'unholy two...

Down and Out in the Tiergarten

Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

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Emeric Pressburger : The Life and Death of a Screenwriter

Faber and Faber Limited, 1994

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...The sources for this chapter are Pressburger's autobiographical notes (PC) and my own memories. Mondnacht and AufReisen are both in the PC.In his old age, my grandfather did everything with a kind of slow, meticulous care that I sometimes...

Endings

Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

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Emeric Pressburger : The Life and Death of a Screenwriter

Faber and Faber Limited, 1994

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......Now, here is the lake, and I still haven't changed! The Life and Death of Colonel BlimpWhen I think of my grandfather I can't help thinking of Shoemaker's Cottage at the same time. He and his house resembled each other: small and squat...

The Red Shoes

Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

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Emeric Pressburger : The Life and Death of a Screenwriter

Faber and Faber Limited, 1994

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...Although good ballet is assured box office in London and possibly other big cities, its popularity in small towns and country districts is dubious. And in America, too, it will probably only attract a limited audience.In his New York...