tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222475879097604897.post1837237025761550683..comments2023-10-31T10:21:00.796-04:00Comments on Thanks for the Use of the Hall: The Small Back RoomDan Sallitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13136066978329749513noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222475879097604897.post-8877455235641170762009-08-24T18:13:06.559-04:002009-08-24T18:13:06.559-04:00Blake - Gone to Earth is the last P&P film I l...Blake - <b>Gone to Earth</b> is the last P&P film I love. Maybe the 50s weren't as good a context for their audacity, what with the general escalation of fantasy and emotive subject matter. Look how far Powell had to go with <b>Peeping Tom</b> (a film that never quite works for me) to be more outrageous than the norm.<br /><br />I like <b>Age of Consent</b> quite a bit, though it's perhaps not as intense as my favorite work by Powell.Dan Sallitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13136066978329749513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222475879097604897.post-16038552765840930642009-08-18T11:17:28.122-04:002009-08-18T11:17:28.122-04:00A beautiful piece Dan! This film was a real disco...A beautiful piece Dan! This film was a real discovery for me.Danielhttp://notebook.theauteurs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222475879097604897.post-88385312134880298562009-08-16T15:12:19.077-04:002009-08-16T15:12:19.077-04:00It happens I just saw this again very recently, ma...It happens I just saw this again very recently, maybe a couple of months ago. Yes, it's just superb. While I think there is more competition at the top with BLACK NARCISSUS than you do (I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING, THE RED SHOES, COLONEL BLIMP--all conventional choices I know, but that doesn't mean they are not special films, I can't argue that this is a really good choice.<br /><br />I mainly wanted to leave a comment that someone wrote on this in FILM COMMENT (I believe the previous issue) and it was disappointing after just seeing the film again. I thought what you said caught it much better; it resonated against my experience of the film, so was very pleasing to read.<br /><br />I'm a sucker for movies about troubled love relationships running parallel to some external action, which does have an unexpected feel here as you intimate--at least when it's as well-done as it is in this movie.<br />It hasn't been done this well very often.<br /><br />Well, I don't have anything profound to say, but here's an aside. I recently caught up with P & P's last film together--ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT, and it was a very rare instance where I was kind of let down. This was a much more conventional WWII movie, nothing bad about it exactly but it kind of bored me. Any thoughts on this, Dan? Do you think Powell and Pressburger as a team had run their course? Though I don't think Powell alone met that level later and found the easygoing AGE OF CONSENT modestly likeable at best, as much as it might have some familiar themes and a nude Helen Mirren...Blake L.noreply@blogger.com