24 Frames: 55 Dias em Pequim (55 Days at Peking, Ray/Green/Marton, 1963)

One morning that summer looking up from his feet Nick told me while making 55 Days to Peking he’d had a nightmare and that when he woke up from the nightmare he knew he would not complete another film in this lifetime. Susan Ray – I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies Taí uma

War Starts at Midnight!

É, nem lacrimejei. Art Goes On Forever – A Tribute to The Archers Nota: Faltaram Elusive Pimpernel, The Battle of the River Plate, Oh… Rosalinda!!, Ill Met by Moonlight, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing e Spy in Black, alguns destes compreensivelmente porque não foram devidamente restaurados e seria covardia colocar perto de Narcissus e

The Red Shoes por Nat Farbman

Tales of Hoffmann por Cornell Capa

24 Frames: The Red Shoes Ballet

Isso é o que acontece quando neguinho resolve fazer uma sequência em live-action do Fantasia do Disney. On a more practical level, the multimedia nature of film has made it the ideal means for achieving a synthesis of poetry, music, movement and drama. Nevertheless, only a handful of filmmakers has attempted the kind of fusion

24 Frames: Ato 3 – Rat Krespel (The Tales of Hoffmann, Powell & Pressburger, 1951)

Hoffmann is the unrivalled master of the uncanny in literature. (…) The author has piled up too much material of the same kind. In consequence one’s grasp of the story as a whole suffers, though not the impression it makes. We must content ourselves with selecting those themes of uncanniness which are most prominent, and

24 Frames: Ato 2 – The Lost Reflection (Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1951)

Every New Year’s Eve the Devil keeps a special treat for me. He knows just the right moment to jam his claw into my heart, keeping up a fine mockery while he licks the blood that wells out. And there is always someone around to help him. Die Abenteuer der Silvester-Nacht (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann,

24 Frames: Ato 1 – The Sandman (The Tales of Hoffmann, Powell & Pressburger, 1951)

When we proceed to review things, persons, impressions, events and situations which are able to arouse in us a feeling of the uncanny in a particularly forcible and definite form, the first requirement is obviously to select a suitable example to start on. Jentsch has taken as a very good instance ‘doubts whether an apparently

24 Frames: One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)

Michael Powell dirigindo, Emeric Pressburger como roteirista, David Lean na edição, Ronald Neame fazendo a fotografia, David Rawnsley na direção de arte, estréia de Peter Ustinov no cinema, Robert Helpmann usando um triângulo na lapela? Ah, vá – nada disso tem importância alguma. O cinema propagandista inglês na segunda guerra é infinitamente superior ao que