The Bishop’s Wife is a fine Christmas film that deserves to be better known. It’s enough to make you believe in angels.
Month: December 2023
Strangers and trains
Brief Encounter works as a film, despite its British restraint, because it tells a story about what happens when heart is separated from home.
The Spy in Black
The screenwriter Emeric Pressburger was hired by Alexander Korda to fix The Spy in Black. It was the first time he worked with Michael Powell.
Doing it for some doll
The film musical Guys and Dolls is about honour among gamblers and hustlers. That’s why it’s shot in a stylised way in the studio.
Charles Dickens and the idea of Christmas
Charles Dickens didn’t invent the Victorian Christmas. But he shaped it in ways that are still with us.
Dylan Thomas seventy years on
He was the best-known poet in the English-speaking world after the war. But his work still gets lost in his reputation.