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Personally, I have no problem with the original Jeff Wayne version and roadshow (though a digital Burton is difficult). Each generation has the right to rework it in its own distinctive manner. Welles did it on radio and Wayne used the tragic Shakespearean tragic narration of Burton to good effect. ...

Yes, currently listening to it for my scientific romances class in a few hours. It will follow the audio WAR OF THE WORLDS.

Somewhere in Harold Bloom's SHAKESPEARE: THE INVENTION OF THE HUMAN (1998) he describes Macbeth as the most expressionist of the Bard's plays.

Hello Fellow chartered Accountants, I've just been watching the Tim Brooke-Taylor interview on the 3rd disk of AT LAST THE 1984 SHOW BFI . DVD. Towards the end, the sadly departed comedian mentions that Orson Welles saw him in BROADEN YOUR MIND (1968-69) that followed the 1948 Show and preceded THE ...

Also spinning off from "Is there a Doctor in the House?" since it is presumably in Italian, "Is there a Translator in the House?"

Yet, did not D.H. Lawrence once say, "Never trust the author, trust the text"? Whatever his motivations, conscious or otherwise, the object became part of the text and something that could generate interpretations in a ludic play of possibilities. Since, I've not seen the film recently, as...

Could be. The attraction of Welles is his invite to multiple interpretations and speculation.

I assume "ottomobiles" is from the script? If so, I assume Aunt Fanny is equating them with the old Ottomon Empire seeing them as a device of those fiendish Turks?

For J.G. Ballard, the automobile was more than a "useless nuisance." "Sadly, despite the enormous benefits which the car has created...the car has brought with it a train of hazards and disasters, from the congestion of city and countryside to the serious injury and deaths of millions...

Rankin's line about Karl Marx not being a German but a Jew also comes from MEIN KAMPF that I'm currently reading. The Robin character must have read it since he is dedicated to knowing his enemy.

Larry Cohen made the point about the driving sequences but he was a very good friend of Benny and regretted that he anbd Hitchcock had that falling out. It was a shame that Larry never got funding for THE MAN WHO THOUGHT HE WAS HITCHCOCK when Peter Ustinov was still around to play "The Master.&...

My Thoughts exactly. Though much as I like METROPOLIS, I wish it had been AMBERSONS they discovered.

You also have to remember that similar problems occurred in the post-war era: Operation Paperclip, the recruitment of Nazi War criminals in Germany, the resentment against "displaced persons", and those surviving the camps, anti-semitism etc. Maybe he would not be welcome in present day Hu...

Actually, if you run those interminable scenes of Scotty driving his car in pursuit of M, they are boring. Hermann gave the scenes an added dimension with his music in the same way he argued successfully with Hitchcock to not leave the shower sequence silent.As for the second point, i'll pass and le...

He would soon relocate to Europe again were he with us as he did when HUAC loomed,

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... terrifying