Best five films from British Directors (Part One A to J)
Jun 1, 2017 20:28:47 GMT
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Post by london777 on Jun 1, 2017 20:28:47 GMT
Not represented:
Noël Coward
A bit shameful I forgot him as I have recently written about him in my "Public Domain" thread. Mind you, he only ever directed one cinema release (plus some TV films mostly of his own plays) and it is a moot point how much of that movie, In Which We Serve (1942), was actually directed by Coward and how much by David Lean as his first crack at directing. With hindsight, it is often surmised that the best bits (and certainly all the "kinetic" bits) were from Lean, and the more conventional and talky bits like dinner parties and officers' briefings were from Coward but that may be unfair. Certainly the overall feeling of the thing is not like a Lean movie.
It should have been a poll option here. I thought about sneaking it in under David Lean in the K to Z poll, but that would have been presumptuous.
Noël Coward
A bit shameful I forgot him as I have recently written about him in my "Public Domain" thread. Mind you, he only ever directed one cinema release (plus some TV films mostly of his own plays) and it is a moot point how much of that movie, In Which We Serve (1942), was actually directed by Coward and how much by David Lean as his first crack at directing. With hindsight, it is often surmised that the best bits (and certainly all the "kinetic" bits) were from Lean, and the more conventional and talky bits like dinner parties and officers' briefings were from Coward but that may be unfair. Certainly the overall feeling of the thing is not like a Lean movie.
It should have been a poll option here. I thought about sneaking it in under David Lean in the K to Z poll, but that would have been presumptuous.