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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...

Being Hungarian is not Enough

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...

Artists United

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 arrow was pure goldBut somehow missed the target.But as all golden arrow trippers know, It's better to miss Naples than hit Margate.The long, drawn-out birth of 49th Parallel allowed plenty of time for work on other...

Ufa and the Weimar Movie Brats

Billy Wilder

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Emeric Pressburger : The Life and Death of a Screenwriter

Faber and Faber Limited, 1994

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...There is an unjustified suspicion of the younger generation and that is an enormous, perhaps the worst mistake. After all, the future of German films lies in their hands... pay attention to the younger generation of screen writers!EMMERICH...

Second Childhood

Billy Wilder

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Emeric Pressburger : The Life and Death of a Screenwriter

Faber and Faber Limited, 1994

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...A married man lives like a dog and dies like a king; an unmarried man lives like a king and dies like a dog.After his two divorces, one personal, the other professional, the very existence of Emeric Pressburger came into doubt. The man who...

La Vie Parisienne

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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...Paris, which had always amused me on holiday, was too lovely... emigration was no hardship, it was an outing. It offered the shining, wet boulevards under the street lights, breakfast in Montmartre with cognac in your glass, coffee...

Production Values

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Emeric Pressburger : The Life and Death of a Screenwriter

Faber and Faber Limited, 1994

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...A producer shouldn't get ulcers, he should give them.In 1942 Kellner Sándor, the estate manager's son from the Hungarian puszta, knelt before the King of England and arose Sir Alexander Korda. After only six years as a British subject, he...

The War

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 the fate of Poland stares them in the face, there are thoughtless dilettanti or purblind worldlings who sometimes ask us:'What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?' To this I answer:'If we left off fighting you would...

Beginnings

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...