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Heaven help us when all your gold is gone
I have spent the day lying on the couch feeling incoherently awful, but discovered after dark that the mail had brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #81, which reprints my ghost review "Hyperboloids of Wondrous Light." It belongs to the replacement issue, whose contents need no substitute for the fiction and poetry of Jennifer Vaknine, Devan Barlow, Jordan Hirsch, A J Dalton, and more. By ghost review I mean that Derek Jarman never made a film about Alan Turing, but in June I dreamed that he had and wrote about it accordingly. To have it in print in a saddle-stapled black-and-white 'zine feels suitably 1994. You can still pick up a copy in this year if you feel like it, which I hope you do.
To vi) I should say 'I shall never know, any more than I shall ever be quite certain that you feel as I do.'
—Alan Turing, "Chess" (1953)
To vi) I should say 'I shall never know, any more than I shall ever be quite certain that you feel as I do.'
—Alan Turing, "Chess" (1953)
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Thank you!
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Thank you! It got a BFI restoration from the hell of a good universe next door.
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I am sorry about the awfulness, though. I have also been feeling too rotten to do much, so *fistbumps*? But also: *hugs*
Btw, have you ever seen The Man Who Loved Redheads? I had it for Christmas (Rattigan again), but it turns out to include a fairly young Denholm in colour and when I am less rubbish, if you haven't, I will try and cap him for you. (I won't rashly promise a gif, because it depends on whether it rips or I have to do it the fiddly way.)
(It was pretty much pure confection, but that was exactly right for feeling ill on Boxing Day and I therefore enjoyed it a lot, insofar as I was capable.)
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Thank you so much!
I am sorry about the awfulness, though. I have also been feeling too rotten to do much, so *fistbumps*? But also: *hugs*
*hugs*
(I couldn't get a portmanteau out of this exchange that I didn't feel bad about.)
Btw, have you ever seen The Man Who Loved Redheads? I had it for Christmas (Rattigan again), but it turns out to include a fairly young Denholm in colour and when I am less rubbish, if you haven't, I will try and cap him for you. (I won't rashly promise a gif, because it depends on whether it rips or I have to do it the fiddly way.)
I know of it because of Moira Shearer, but I have never seen it and I would love whatever fragments you feel up to transferring! Thank you for offering.
(It was pretty much pure confection, but that was exactly right for feeling ill on Boxing Day and I therefore enjoyed it a lot, insofar as I was capable.)
I am very glad you had it to watch.
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Ha, yes, all the permutations don't really work, do they? XD
I know of it because of Moira Shearer, but I have never seen it and I would love whatever fragments you feel up to transferring! Thank you for offering.
I will do my best, technology permitting! Hopefully at marginally faster than the usual speed of about two years from now.
Btw, I also recently listened to a BBC radio version of The Flare Path and wondered had you come across that one, because I liked it, probably the most so far of the lesser known Rattigans I've tried, and I thought you might well too. It was about the RAF in WWII. I think there is a contempory film (???), but I can't remember what the status is, if there was (I was looking before Christmas, hence my TMWLR dvd pressie, and they were almost all hard to get or no dvds or only available in r1, which is still the result that annoys me the most for obscure Brit things.)
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What is clocks? No stress.
Btw, I also recently listened to a BBC radio version of The Flare Path and wondered had you come across that one, because I liked it, probably the most so far of the lesser known Rattigans I've tried, and I thought you might well too. It was about the RAF in WWII. I think there is a contempory film (???)
I have seen The Way to the Stars (1945), which is the film Flare Path was rewritten into. I watched it in 2022 when falling through John Mills and never managed to write about it given the everything else of that year, but I liked it a lot and in hindsight it also contains one feature-debuting Bill Owen along with Michael Redgrave, Renée Asherson, Stanley Holloway etc. (It had a Network DVD. Third-party availability still looks like yes, but I have no idea how useful that abstraction is to you.) I have never seen or heard a production of Flare Path. In other words, I would love a link if you have one.
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You can find it here as part of the Rattigan Collection we were both snagging from before. Looking at the plot for the film, that does sound very much reworked, indeed, it's only just recognisable as being related to what I listened to the other week. It was a 1965 version, so the sound isn't as clear as some.
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Right! I actually saw that and recognized nearly no one in it. I'm glad it was good, regardless of sound quality.
Looking at the plot for the film, that does sound very much reworked, indeed, it's only just recognisable as being related to what I listened to the other week.
I believe the majority of the likeness is "fictional RAF station written by Terence Rattigan." It is full of aircraft and actors with good faces, though, and its retrospective frame is one of those neat little shifts of reality because to a post-war audience it looks completely normal to open on a derelict airfield before rolling back to fill in its wartime past, but the film itself was released between V-E Day and V-J Day; it was projecting the war-won future that hadn't quite happened yet.
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I popped them on tumblr here: https://www.tumblr.com/thisbluespirit/771506151522287616/denholm-elliott-in-the-man-who-loved-redheads?source=share
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I believe the majority of the likeness is "fictional RAF station written by Terence Rattigan." It is full of aircraft and actors with good faces, though, and its retrospective frame is one of those neat little shifts of reality because to a post-war audience it looks completely normal to open on a derelict airfield before rolling back to fill in its wartime past, but the film itself was released between V-E Day and V-J Day; it was projecting the war-won future that hadn't quite happened yet.
That sounds very cool, and since I have now started being completist about Rattigan to make up for lost time, I will most likely get to it if there's a Network DVD, because those are usually still around somewhere as yet. <3
(I think I may have previously muddled it with The Stars Look Down which is a Carol Reed film with Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave that I should, on paper, have liked a lot, but sadly did not. I gave the dvd to my sister to sell on eBay for me, and then my Mum bought it back and felt much the same, lol.)
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Thank you so much!
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I have never seen him so young in color before! What is he doing in this film?
That sounds very cool, and since I have now started being completist about Rattigan to make up for lost time, I will most likely get to it if there's a Network DVD, because those are usually still around somewhere as yet.
I like it a lot. It follows many of the patterns of WWI aviation films so that the attrition rates are about what you expect, but one of its explicit points is how to try to stay human and it popularized two poems which I had learned independently by the time I saw the film.
(I think I may have previously muddled it with The Stars Look Down which is a Carol Reed film with Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave that I should, on paper, have liked a lot, but sadly did not. I gave the dvd to my sister to sell on eBay for me, and then my Mum bought it back and felt much the same, lol.)
I have never seen The Stars Look Down, but am much warier of it now knowing it had it in for your entire family!
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Heh, yes, 1950s UK colour films are a rarity! He was playing Denis, the son, so he's in both the middle time skip (this one), and the final one in which he is a little aged up. He becomes an actor and plays Mark Antony at the Old Vic.
I have never seen The Stars Look Down, but am much warier of it now knowing it had it in for your entire family!
Wariness would no doubt help; that is the usual rule! I went in with too high an expectation and then Margaret Lockwood's character was thanklessly irredeemable in a tiresome way, and they kept using a made up name for Newcastle when they had no reason to do so. (Obv one of these complaints is slightly more important than the other, but at this distance that's what I remember!)
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That's charming. I can't actually imagine a Denholm Elliott Mark Antony, but presumably the viewer can with Denis.
I went in with too high an expectation and then Margaret Lockwood's character was thanklessly irredeemable in a tiresome way, and they kept using a made up name for Newcastle when they had no reason to do so. (Obv one of these complaints is slightly more important than the other, but at this distance that's what I remember!)
Plus filing the serial numbers off Newcastle is just confusing.
I may just stick to The Citadel (1938) if I want A. J. Cronin onscreen, which still makes a plot decision I dislike strongly, but at least first gives me Robert Donat and Ralph Richardson blowing up a sewer.
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I mean, he apparently had a good opening night!
Plus filing the serial numbers off Newcastle is just confusing.
A mystery for the ages, as far as I was concerned. It had lots of interesting elements that were forerunners of later New Wave stuff, but I just couldn't really get on board with it.
I may just stick to The Citadel (1938) if I want A. J. Cronin onscreen, which still makes a plot decision I dislike strongly, but at least first gives me Robert Donat and Ralph Richardson blowing up a sewer.
Well, that is good. More people should attack sewers and things - they killed at least two of my direct ancestors! XD
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Thank you!
(It still makes me happy that you love it.)
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I hope you feel far, far better today.
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Thank you!
I hope you feel far, far better today.
Unfortunately I still feel terrible, but I have books.
*hugs*
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Thank you!
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*hugs*
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Thank you!
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