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--ดิฉันไม่มีความรู้เรื่องดนตรีคลาสสิคค่ะ ก็เลยต้องขอบคุณคุณ pc มากๆที่ให้เกร็ดความรู้เกี่ยวกับเรื่องพวกนี้ เมื่อพูดถึงประเด็นเรื่องดนตรีคลาสสิคแล้ว ก็เลยนึกขึ้นได้ว่าเพิ่งอ่านคอลัมน์ของคุณอึ่งอ่างทะเลในหนังสือพิมพ์ BANGKOK POST ฉบับเมื่อหลายศุกร์ก่อน มีการเขียนแนะนำหนังสือเกี่ยวกับดนตรีคลาสสิคในคริสต์ศตวรรษที่ 20 ด้วย ดิฉันจำชื่อหนังสือและจำชื่อคนเขียนไม่ได้ แต่จำได้ว่าคุณอึ่งอ่างทะเลเขียนถึงเนื้อหาบางส่วนของหนังสือเล่มนี้ที่น่าสนใจมาก นั่นก็คือคนเขียนหนังสือเล่มนี้เขาตั้งข้อสังเกตว่า การที่ฮิตเลอร์และนาซีชื่นชอบดนตรีคลาสสิคมากๆอาจจะเป็นสาเหตุส่วนหนึ่งที่ทำให้หนังหลายเรื่องหลังสงครามโลกครั้งที่สองมีตัวละครผู้ร้ายที่ชอบฟังดนตรีคลาสสิค (เท่าที่ดิฉันนึกออกก็มีผู้ร้ายใน LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL) ในขณะที่ตัวละครพระเอกมักจะชอบฟังเพลงร็อค หรืออะไรทำนองนี้
--ฉากอิซาเบล อัดจานีในสถานีรถไฟใต้ดินใน POSSESSION เป็นหนึ่งในฉากที่ดิฉันชอบมากที่สุดในชีวิตค่ะ ดิฉันได้ลองเข้าไปดูคลิปที่คุณ PC ทำลิงค์ไว้ให้แล้ว ก็เลยเห็นว่าอัดจานีเธอเหมือนมีอาการคันคะเยอด้วย (ดิฉันลืมส่วนนี้ไปแล้ว) เห็นอัดจานีมีอาการอย่างนี้แล้วก็เลยคิดว่าเธอเหมาะจะมาอยู่ร่วมห้องกับ ASHLEY JUDD ใน BUG อย่างมากๆ
--พูดถึงหนังอังกฤษแล้ว ก็เลยนึกขึ้นมาได้ว่า ใน blog ของคุณ GIRISH SHAMBU เพิ่งมีการคุยกันเรื่อง BRITISH NEW WAVE FILMMAKERS ในทศวรรษ 1960 ด้วยค่ะ อ่านเรื่องนี้ได้ที่
http://www.girishshambu.com/blog/2007/11/movie-vs-british-cinema.html
ใน blog นี้มีความเห็นของคุณ Miguel Marias ที่น่าสนใจมากๆค่ะ เพราะเขาได้ทำรายชื่อผู้กำกับภาพยนตร์ชาวอังกฤษที่น่าสนใจไว้ด้วย
Miguel Marias left some very useful comments in Girish’s blog about interesting British filmmakers. These are parts of his comments:
“Personally, I'd recommend another diet. Better see the really great (or enjoyable, inventive and even very good) British movies (there have always been a few), made by Humphrey Jennings, Bill Douglas, Michael Powell (sometimes with Emeric Pressburger), Stephen Dwoskin, Alexander Mackendrick, Terence Fisher, Robert Hamer, Basil Wright, Herbert Wilcox, Joseph Losey (born American and American filmmaker until 1952), Alan Clarke, Charles Crichton, Jack Clayton, Basil Dean, Zoltan and Alexander Korda, David Lean, Carol Reed, the early Loach/Frears/Leigh/Hodges and still several others, most unreputed or excessively labelled "American" like Chaplin and Hitchcock.”
“I could have mentioned as well Maurice Elvey ("Hindle Wakes", "The Clairvoyant"), Muriel Box, Alan Curtis, Victor Saville, Compton Bennett, Frank Launder & Sydney Gilliatt, Charles Frend, Ronald Neame, Terence Young, Harry Watt, John Grierson, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, John Gilling, Lionel Jeffries, Peter Ustinov (his "Billy Budd" is a very good film), the prematurely deceased Seth Holt and Michael Reeve. There are certainly very interesting British films, at least since John Stuart Blackton.”
I look for the information of some DVDs of the filmmakers Miguel Marias recommended, so I can add them to my DVD wish list:
1.Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0421165/
This is the description of his DVD from http://www.amazon.com/
“One of the greatest figures in the celebrated British Documentary film movement, Humphery Jennings is most remembered for the way his films reflected the concerns and conditions of World War II in the United Kingdom. Jennings was a wonderful filmmaker who made uniquely beautiful films. He had a poet's command of film language, a painter's eye for evocative imagery and composition, a musician's ear for rhythm and tone and counterpoint, a Soviet's sense of juxtaposition, a journalist's nose for the concrete and the factual, and a compassionate man's love for the people he portrayed. This six film collection allows the world to see the power and beauty of Jennings's historically important films. Films: London Can Take It (1940, 9 min.), Words for Battle (1941, 8 min.), Listen to Britain (1942, 18 min.), Fires Were Started (a.k.a. I Was a Fireman) (1943, 74 min.), A Diary for Timothy (1943, 39 min.), Family Portrait (1951, 24 min.).”
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2.Alexander Mackendrick (1912-1993)
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ดิฉันเคยดูเรื่อง THE LADYKILLERS (1955, Alexander Mackendrick, B) แต่ไม่ได้ชอบมากนัก
2.1 THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (1951)
Synopsis from http://www.amazon.com/
“Ealing comedy--cozy, gentle, and whimsical, right? In this case, think again. Alexander Mackendrick was always the most politically aware of the Ealing directors, and in The Man in the White Suit (1952) he takes the studio's favorite theme of the little man up against the system and gives it a sharp satirical twist. Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness at his most unworldly), a maverick scientist working in a textile mill, invents a fabric that never gets dirty and never wears out. He's hailed as a genius--until management and unions alike realize what his brainwave implies. Mackendrick's humor is exact and pointed, and the satire turns savage as a lynch mob of bosses and workers hunt Sidney down through dark, narrow streets. Mackendrick's disenchanted view of class-ridden British society still rings horribly true, and he draws note-perfect performances from the cream of British character actors: Cecil Parker as the liberal mill owner (based, it's said, on Ealing boss Michael Balcon); Ernest Thesiger as the evil old godfather of the industry; and, wittily sensual as Sidney's confidante, the ever-wonderful Joan Greenwood. Plus, listen out for the "voice" of Sidney's bizarre apparatus, the funniest and most unforgettable sound effect ever devised. --Philip Kemp
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2.2 A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA (1965)
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3.TERENCE FISHER (1904-1980)
3.1 SO LONG AT THE FAIR (1950)
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3.2 FOUR-SIDED TRIANGLE (1953)
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3.3 THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1958)
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3.4 ISLAND OF TERROR (1966)
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3.5 THE DEVIL RIDES OUT (1968)
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4.HERBERT WILCOX
NELL GWYN (1934)
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5.ALAN CLARKE (1935-1990)
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5.1 SCUM (1979)
Synopsis from http://www.amazon.com/
“The son of a bricklayer who also spent some time as a laborer before studying acting and directing in Canada, Alan Clarke (who died in 1990) got his start at the BBC in the 1960s. By 1977, he had directed his explosive and controversial television feature, Scum, starring Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast) as a survivor at a corrupt and brutal juvenile prison. Harrowing, claustrophobic, and deeply tragic, Scum was banned by the BBC for graphic brutality (and, quite likely, criticism of the justice system), leading Clarke to remake it with Winstone and the same script as a 1979 theatrical release. Both versions are included on this disc, and each is a unique experience. The earlier Scum is a lean, low-budget, relentlessly nightmarish drama while its second take is moodier, slower, and intermittently shocking. --Tom Keogh”
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5.2 MADE IN BRITAIN (1981)
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Synopsis from http://www.amazon.com/
“Academy Award(r) nominee Tim Roth (RESERVOIR DOGS, PULP FICTION) made his unforgettable film debut as Trevor, a ferocious teenage skinhead whose random acts of racism, vandalism and violence send him on a snarling spiral through England's justice system. This is the unsparing portrait of youth fueled by rage and hate prowling an empire ruled by repression and despair. It remains a shattering cinematic experience that could only be MADE IN BRITAIN.”
5.3 THE FIRM (1988)
Synopsis from http://www.amazon.com/
“The Firm and Elephant are two of Clarke's most interesting films and perhaps the best evidence of a surrealist streak often noted by his contemporaries. The Firm (1998) stars Gary Oldman in a dazzling performance as a London realtor, Bex, whose hobby is soccer hooliganism. Surrounded by other middle-class mates with nice cars, homes, and families, Bex is essentially a gang ringleader who exchanges violent hostilities with another gang of even better-dressed, better-spoken London soccer fans. Clarke's images of grown men, with lives of real responsibility, beating each other's brains in is too bizarre to shake off. From the same year is Clarke's short, Elephant, in which a wordless series of vignettes about shootings take on a ritual, almost musical, form. --Tom Keogh”
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--เห็นคุณ pc เขียนถึงคลิปบัลเลต์ที่คุณชอบดูเป็นประจำ ดิฉันก็เลยนึกถึงหนังที่ดิฉันอยากดูอีกหลายๆรอบค่ะ ซึ่งก็คือหนังที่ดิฉันชอบที่สุดในปีนี้ เรื่อง CRY IN SILENCE (2006, J. G. Biggs, A+++++++++++++++)
4 comments:
I know I'm biased, as I'm British, but the list of directors in this post is very good indeed.
You mention The LadyKillers and The Man In The White Suit, both of which are wonderful films, but the same studio also produced Kind Hearts & Coronets which is even better.
For early Ken Loach, see Kes and Cathy Come Home (both 1960s social realist films). Carol Reed's The Third Man was voted the best British film ever made, by the British Film Institute (publishers of Sight & Sound), and it's an amazing film. Hitchcock's best British film was The 39 Steps.
I saw THE THIRD MAN and like it a lot. I particularly like the scene in which Orson Welles suddenly appears.
I don’t know if you have seen a Filipino gay film called THE BLOSSOMING OF MAXIMO OLIVEROS (2005, Auraeus Solito) or not, because there’s one scene in this Filipino film which is inspired by THE THIRD MAN.
I have seen very few early British films, including
1.A CANTERBURY TALE (1944, Michael Powell + Emeric Pressburger, A+)
2.PEEPING TOM (1960, Michael Powell, A+)
3.THE LION IN WINTER (1968, Anthony Harvey, A+)
4.The TV series “THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE” (1978, A+)
5.BLACK NARCISSUS (1947, Michael Powell + Emeric Pressburger, A+/A)
6.IF…(1968, Lindsay Anderson, A)
7.HENRY V (1944, Laurence Olivier)
I don’t give a grade to this film, because I hardly understand what the characters are talking. My English listening comprehension is very bad.
Those Powell & Pressburger films are all great. I think their greatest was A Matter Of Life & Death, which was partly realistic and partly a fantasy.
If.... has a fantastic performance by Malcolm McDowell, very similar to his character in A Clockwork Orange. It makes a great double-bill with Vigo's Zero De Conduite.
Henry V, with the Shakespearean language, can be hard to follow for all of us, partly because Shakespeare invented so many new words, but Olivier's performance is impressive I think. He also did Hamlet on film shortly afterwards.
I would like to see A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH. Sonthaya Subyen once screened this film for his audience many years ago, but I didn’t go to that screening. I saw A CANTERBURY TALE because Sonthaya screened it at Thammasat University a few years ago. I think Sonthaya likes Michael Powell very much.
I also saw ZERO FOR CONDUCT and like it a lot. The most important reason that makes me like ZERO FOR CONDUCT and IF… is not the aesthetics reason, but I like both films because they seem to include some teenage gay characters in the films. It is not strange if a character like this appears in contemporary films, but ZERO FOR CONDUCT was first shown in 1933, and that makes the film very impressive for me.
Of course, my most favorite scene in IF… is the scene in which a boy looks at another boy performing gymnastics. :-)
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