I followed an elderly link from somewhere to find this and it's great.
Thank you so much! I love the movie, so I keep thinking about it, and it concentrates so many other things I care about. In case your elderly link did not include it, this post had a kind of follow-up last spring which updates important information (coins turning up in the field) about the authorship of A Canterbury Tale; short version, it was deeply Pressburger's movie.
I must watch the movie
It looks as though the BFI currently has it streaming as a digital rental. (I continue to resent that I can't play even their free stuff in the U.S.)
- especially if I ever get to write about the question of legacy, who inherits and stewards and has a right to the land and the magic, in English children's fantasy. This is the thesis I'd have written already in another world, and it refers a decent amount to The Owl Service.
I would love to read it. May I ask what else it refers to?
But those are books deeply tied to national myth, to anachronism that brings together past and present and doesn't even feel anachronistic but just correct, to the land and the natural world. And Merlin is the scholar and the connection to the natural world and the one a bit out of step with time, and the one who leads people to their deep connection with the land and to the fact that, surprisingly or not, it's their legacy.
Oh, interesting! I have not read that book in so long, I caught the Kipling in A Canterbury Tale, I didn't even think of T.H. White. There should be a term for these psychopomps of time. They keep turning up.
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Thank you so much! I love the movie, so I keep thinking about it, and it concentrates so many other things I care about. In case your elderly link did not include it, this post had a kind of follow-up last spring which updates important information (coins turning up in the field) about the authorship of A Canterbury Tale; short version, it was deeply Pressburger's movie.
I must watch the movie
It looks as though the BFI currently has it streaming as a digital rental. (I continue to resent that I can't play even their free stuff in the U.S.)
- especially if I ever get to write about the question of legacy, who inherits and stewards and has a right to the land and the magic, in English children's fantasy. This is the thesis I'd have written already in another world, and it refers a decent amount to The Owl Service.
I would love to read it. May I ask what else it refers to?
But those are books deeply tied to national myth, to anachronism that brings together past and present and doesn't even feel anachronistic but just correct, to the land and the natural world. And Merlin is the scholar and the connection to the natural world and the one a bit out of step with time, and the one who leads people to their deep connection with the land and to the fact that, surprisingly or not, it's their legacy.
Oh, interesting! I have not read that book in so long, I caught the Kipling in A Canterbury Tale, I didn't even think of T.H. White. There should be a term for these psychopomps of time. They keep turning up.