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Mar. 24th, 2012
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Mar. 24th, 2012 11:09 pmNow THIS is what I call Spring weather--hours of drizzly rain, chilly breezes, and cool nights. Lovely!
Watching a sweet little movie called "A Canterbury Tale", about an American NCO who stops by accident in a small town while travelling to Canterbury. He finds a mystery and, with the help of some British friends he makes, solves it. It's (IMO) an odd and charming film, filled with eccentric characters, rapidfire dialogue of a very 1940s type, and wonderful glimpses of a British filmmakers' imaginings of country life in the 1940s (the film was made during the war--1944). It was largely filmed on location in Kent, so it has me thinking of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blueinva--the only Kentish Man (or is he a Man of Kent--I can never remember) whom I know. And for those of my friends who are of a military history bent, Universal Carriers feature prominently in a couple of scenes! Three of them maneuvering at speed in one scene especially.
The pair who made this, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, made several other overlooked classic films, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, 49th Parallel, and I Know Where I'm Going!, which I saw several years ago and liked for the same reasons I'm liking this one (plus a great starring role for the very young Wendy Hiller!)
Oh, and Phineas decided to sleep ON TOP of Nicholas just now, which was rather amusing. Unrelated to the movie, but funny nonetheless.
Watching a sweet little movie called "A Canterbury Tale", about an American NCO who stops by accident in a small town while travelling to Canterbury. He finds a mystery and, with the help of some British friends he makes, solves it. It's (IMO) an odd and charming film, filled with eccentric characters, rapidfire dialogue of a very 1940s type, and wonderful glimpses of a British filmmakers' imaginings of country life in the 1940s (the film was made during the war--1944). It was largely filmed on location in Kent, so it has me thinking of
blueinva--the only Kentish Man (or is he a Man of Kent--I can never remember) whom I know. And for those of my friends who are of a military history bent, Universal Carriers feature prominently in a couple of scenes! Three of them maneuvering at speed in one scene especially.The pair who made this, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, made several other overlooked classic films, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, 49th Parallel, and I Know Where I'm Going!, which I saw several years ago and liked for the same reasons I'm liking this one (plus a great starring role for the very young Wendy Hiller!)
Oh, and Phineas decided to sleep ON TOP of Nicholas just now, which was rather amusing. Unrelated to the movie, but funny nonetheless.