During a three-hour discussion on a recent episode of “The Empire Film Podcast,” Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino revealed the existence of their makeshift quarantine movie club over the last 9 months. As Wright explained, “It’s nice. We’ve kept in touch in a sort of way that cinephiles do. It’s been one of the very few blessings of this [pandemic], the chance to disappear down a rabbit hole with the hours indoors that we have.” Tarantino added, “Edgar is more social than I am. It’s a big deal that I’ve been talking to him these past 9 months.”
A bulk of the film club was curated by none other than Martin Scorsese, who sent Wright a recommendation list of nearly 50 British films that Scorsese considers personal favorites. In the five months Wright spent in lockdown before resuming production on “Last Night in Soho” — and before he received the...
A bulk of the film club was curated by none other than Martin Scorsese, who sent Wright a recommendation list of nearly 50 British films that Scorsese considers personal favorites. In the five months Wright spent in lockdown before resuming production on “Last Night in Soho” — and before he received the...
- 2/8/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Studiocanal’s Vintage Classics is celebrating Christmas with the release of the British festive treat The Holly And The Ivy, starring acting royalty Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, Denholm Elliot and John Gregson.
To celebrate we are giving away a copy of The Holly & The Ivy on Blu-ray along with the recently released Ealing Studios’ 1944 classic The Halfway House and three more much-loved British films from the collection – Went The Day Well, Passport To Pimlico and Dead Of Night.
The Vintage Classics Collection currently features nearly 90 iconic British films, all fully restored and featuring brand new extra content. To find out more, and for news on future releases, follow on Facebook at /Vintageclassicsfilm.
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To celebrate we are giving away a copy of The Holly & The Ivy on Blu-ray along with the recently released Ealing Studios’ 1944 classic The Halfway House and three more much-loved British films from the collection – Went The Day Well, Passport To Pimlico and Dead Of Night.
The Vintage Classics Collection currently features nearly 90 iconic British films, all fully restored and featuring brand new extra content. To find out more, and for news on future releases, follow on Facebook at /Vintageclassicsfilm.
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- 12/8/2019
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
To celebrate the DVD release of The Halfway House available on DVD now, Optimum Home Entertainment have given us three copies of the movie to give away on DVD. The movie was directed by Basil Dearden and stars Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns and Sally Ann Howes.
2011 sees the centenary of the birth of Ealing stalwart Basil Dearden, who directed more Ealing films than any of his peers – 18 – including The Blue Lamp, Saraband for Dead Lovers and The Halfway House. He was also the director of the ground-breaking Victim, starring Dirk Bogarde.
The Halfway House is an enjoyable mystery tale of a group of strangers driven to take shelter at a remote Welsh Inn during a storm. Each has a personal problem to hide, but they are soon brought together by unsettling events perhaps precipitated by their hosts, the enigmatic innkeepers. Starring Mervyn Johns and real-life daughter Glynis, The Halfway House...
2011 sees the centenary of the birth of Ealing stalwart Basil Dearden, who directed more Ealing films than any of his peers – 18 – including The Blue Lamp, Saraband for Dead Lovers and The Halfway House. He was also the director of the ground-breaking Victim, starring Dirk Bogarde.
The Halfway House is an enjoyable mystery tale of a group of strangers driven to take shelter at a remote Welsh Inn during a storm. Each has a personal problem to hide, but they are soon brought together by unsettling events perhaps precipitated by their hosts, the enigmatic innkeepers. Starring Mervyn Johns and real-life daughter Glynis, The Halfway House...
- 6/24/2011
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Halfway House (1943)
Director: Basil Dearden
A young girl tries to bring her estranged parents back together by contriving a mini-break at a charming Welsh inn. It might sound a bit like The Parent Trap, but The Halfway House is an intriguing but uneven wartime fantasy drama from Ealing Studios. Director Basil Dearden’s film was co-written by Angus MacPhail and Diana Morgan (Went The Day Well?) and also features one of the most grating Welsh accents I’ve ever heard – courtesy of Glynis Johns.
The Halfway House begins with a series of brief vignettes introducing the main characters. There’s young Joanna (Sally Anne Howes), whose bickering parents Richard and Jill (Richard Bird and Valerie White) are on the brink of divorce. A disgraced army officer Fortescue (Guy Middleton) is released from prison, after serving time for pilfering the regimental funds. At a Welsh port, ex-navy captain Harry Meadows...
Director: Basil Dearden
A young girl tries to bring her estranged parents back together by contriving a mini-break at a charming Welsh inn. It might sound a bit like The Parent Trap, but The Halfway House is an intriguing but uneven wartime fantasy drama from Ealing Studios. Director Basil Dearden’s film was co-written by Angus MacPhail and Diana Morgan (Went The Day Well?) and also features one of the most grating Welsh accents I’ve ever heard – courtesy of Glynis Johns.
The Halfway House begins with a series of brief vignettes introducing the main characters. There’s young Joanna (Sally Anne Howes), whose bickering parents Richard and Jill (Richard Bird and Valerie White) are on the brink of divorce. A disgraced army officer Fortescue (Guy Middleton) is released from prison, after serving time for pilfering the regimental funds. At a Welsh port, ex-navy captain Harry Meadows...
- 6/14/2011
- by Susannah
- SoundOnSight
“Time stands still, here in the Valley” - Mr Rhys the Innkeeper.
When we think of the legacy of Ealing Studios, film fans will always remember the classic comedies Passport to Pimlico (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Man in the White Suit (1951). Long considered the Studios' finest cinema achievements, the beauty of an Ealing comedy is its realist style. Whereas The Carry On films and the Boulting Brothers relied on caricature, Ealing always focused on the ordinary man, notably Stanley Holloway and Alec Guinness, being placed in an extraordinary situation.
Such was their comedy success it’s easy to forget that Ealing dabbled in more serious, and at times, much darker stuff. Horror was never a genre associated with the studio, although the black humour of the excellent Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - with its imaginative murders - pre-dated the ghoulish Theatre of Blood (1973) by nearly 25 years; and yet...
When we think of the legacy of Ealing Studios, film fans will always remember the classic comedies Passport to Pimlico (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Man in the White Suit (1951). Long considered the Studios' finest cinema achievements, the beauty of an Ealing comedy is its realist style. Whereas The Carry On films and the Boulting Brothers relied on caricature, Ealing always focused on the ordinary man, notably Stanley Holloway and Alec Guinness, being placed in an extraordinary situation.
Such was their comedy success it’s easy to forget that Ealing dabbled in more serious, and at times, much darker stuff. Horror was never a genre associated with the studio, although the black humour of the excellent Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - with its imaginative murders - pre-dated the ghoulish Theatre of Blood (1973) by nearly 25 years; and yet...
- 6/14/2011
- Shadowlocked
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