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scifirenegadeThe Internet Archive was down for about 7 hours yesterday, due to a power outage in San Francisco. Of course, there are conspiracy theories smh. They should invest in some backup servers elsewhere.
sovay recced Gwynne Garfinkle's The Last Word, a poem about the 1935 film Mad Love.
Laridian on Pillowfort posted an assortment of couple photos from the first half of the 20th century (het warning, lol). They make for great pose references.
Ethel Vance's Escape, which I heard is worse then the film. Boy.
Helen McInnes's Above Suspicion, and it appears good ol' Hassie is a movie-only character :(
J. Storer Clouston's The Spy in Black, which does not have the Pressburger touch, but I quite liked the first chapter. Simple, but it paints the picture nicely.
sovay recced Gwynne Garfinkle's The Last Word, a poem about the 1935 film Mad Love.Laridian on Pillowfort posted an assortment of couple photos from the first half of the 20th century (het warning, lol). They make for great pose references.
Ethel Vance's Escape, which I heard is worse then the film. Boy.
Helen McInnes's Above Suspicion, and it appears good ol' Hassie is a movie-only character :(
J. Storer Clouston's The Spy in Black, which does not have the Pressburger touch, but I quite liked the first chapter. Simple, but it paints the picture nicely.
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Date: 7 Jun 2025 12:28 (UTC)I am so glad you liked it!
J. Storer Clouston's The Spy in Black, which does not have the Pressburger touch, but I quite liked the first chapter. Simple, but it paints the picture nicely.
I have in fact not been able to cope with the absence of Pressburger's inspiration when throwing myself at this novel before, but you may encourage me to give it another try. (Ironically the most I have ever writen about that film was for Sebastian Shaw.)
[edit] I am not sensible about Powell and Pressburger, but especially not about Pressburger.
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Date: 8 Jun 2025 09:06 (UTC)From what I know of the plot of The Spy in Black novel, it comes closer to Dark Journey (1937), that is, it's very confusing and doesn't tie up nicely. It also has too many characters. The script before Pressburger came along was closer to the novel, and Powell hated it. So good.
Shaw was good, so it's nice he got a little more attention. (I do agree that doing Lawful Good is complicated.)
Great piece on A Canterbury Tale!
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Date: 8 Jun 2025 09:19 (UTC)Much of
From what I know of the plot of The Spy in Black novel, it comes closer to Dark Journey (1937), that is, it's very confusing and doesn't tie up nicely. It also has too many characters. The script before Pressburger came along was closer to the novel, and Powell hated it. So good.
Most of what I know about the novel is how Pressburger turned it inside out! I will be interested to hear your reports if you persist with it.
Shaw was good, so it's nice he got a little more attention. (I do agree that doing Lawful Good is complicated.)
I have even managed to see him in some other films since!
Great piece on A Canterbury Tale!
Thank you! I keep returning to it. I love it very much.
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Date: 8 Jun 2025 13:24 (UTC)o7
Nice! Will have to snoop later.