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The Living Dead (The Scotland Yard Mystery, 1934) R-1936 - Trade ad
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 15th January 1924
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Tuesday 15th January
Dined with the Vansittarts. She is a charming woman, if a bit affected. He is most delightful, clever creative with the gentlest of smiles. He was most successful as Lord Curzon's secretary until He married. Lord Curzon always works his underlings to death and he was jealous of the time Mrs Vansittart occupied. Duff Cooper¹ was at dinner and we sent Diana² a cable of 'good luck' as it was her opening evening in New York where she has gone to play the Madonnna.
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1. Alfred Duff Cooper (1890-1954) had joined the Diplomatic Service in 1913 and served in the Grenadier Guards for the last eighteen months of the war, being awarded the DSO. He married Diana Manners (vide infra) in 1919 but was a career womaniser, which she tolerated. He became Conservative MP for Oldham in 1924 but lost in 1929, returning to Parliament having won the Westminster St George's by-election in 1931, holding the seat until 1945. He quickly attained junior office and in 1935 became Secretary of State for War. In 1937 he became First Lord of the Admiralty but resigned in 1938 over the Munich agreement. Churchill deployed him in various roles between 1940 and 1944, when he became Ambassador to Paris, a post he held until 1947. He was knighted in 1948 and raised to the peerage as 1st Viscount Norwich in 1952.
2. Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners (1892-1986), by courtesy Lady Diana Manners, was the youngest daughters of the 8th Duke of Rutland, but seems to have been the daughter of Harry Cust, one of the Souls, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and Conservative MP. Celebrated as one of the most beautiful women in England, she was a member of the Coterie, her generation's equivalent of the Souls, where she met Duff Cooper, whom she married much against the wishes of her family. She appeared in some silent films and was asked to play the Madonna in Karl Vollmöller's wordless stage spectacle The Miracle, directed by Max Reinhardt, to huge acclaim: she toured the production for twelve years. The money she made allowed Cooper to enter politics and her many absences facilitated his womanising. When he was ennobled she continued to be known as Lady Diana Cooper, on the grounds that 'Norwich' sounded to her like 'porridge'.
#chips channon#channon diaries#1924#1920s#robert vansittart#gladys vansittart#george curzon#duff cooper#diana cooper#🕰️#back again with these as this is channon's first entry of 1924!#i know very few ppl care but me but i enjoy posting them so. :)
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Bad movie I have The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934
#The Man Who Knew Too Much#Leslie Banks#Edna Best#Peter Lorre#Frank Vosper#Hugh Wakefield#Nova Pilbeam#Pierre Fresnay#Cicely Oates#D.A. Clarke-Smith#George Curzon#Frank Atkinson#Betty Baskcomb#Cot D'Ordan#Tony De Lungo#Clare Greet#Pat Hagan#Joan Harrison#Edward A. Hill-Mitchelson#Alfred Hitchcock#James Knight#Arnold Lucy#Andreas Malandrinos
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Excerpts from Mary Curzon - part 1
This is the beginning of a little series I thought I'll share with you guys. It will be a series of excerpts from the book Mary Curzon by Nigel Nicolson. Mary Curzon, or Mary Leiter, was an American heiress and the real-life inspiration for the character Cora Crawley from Downton Abbey. Mary would later marry the British aristocrat George Curzon in 1895. Please be reminded none of these are my words, all excerpts are the original work of Nicolson himself, along with his research and findings. If necessary, I'll provide annotations (**) for clarification before an excerpt is listed.
**After the Duchess of Westminster's ball, Mary was invited to Lady Brownlow's house party in Ashridge, where George Curzon was one of the many attendees. It was at this party where Mary and Curzon became formally acquitted with each other. The following excerpt discusses what followed after Lady Brownlow's party.**
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She had fallen in love with George Curzon, and he was greatly attracted by her. Years later he confessed to her that when she took him into the rose-garden, 'I had a strong inclination to kiss you, with difficulty restrained.' During the ten days that remained before she left England, they wrote to each other daily letters which grew rapidly in intimacy, exchanged presents and photographs, and met on every possible occasion. Her first letter to him, written on the day after returning from Ashridge, is the only one to address him as 'Dear Mr Curzon', but it is signed M.V. L [Mary Victoria Leiter]. The others have no beginning at all, as if what was already assumed between them could not yet be stated. But there were other ways:
Mary to Curzon: 30 July 1890, midnight. 'A tiny little moonbeam showed me my treasure [an amulet which he had given her] while driving home. I shall put it to the test of the Garuda stone, and my first wish will be that you rest, and leave all that tires you. If every wish comes true, I shall be happy. M.V.L.'
Curzon to Mary: 31 July. 'I got your letter this morning. Thank you for it, dear, and for the words. It is a pleasure for me to have met and known you here. I shall think of you while you are away; and beg you both to come back and not wholly expel me from your memory in the interval. I wish you a happy season in Washington, and American males whose charm will just fall short of making you forget that Englishmen can also be charming. God bless you, Mary Victoria. G.'
To this she replied by sending him a pearl from her necklace, 'and had it set for you as emblematic of the tear I shed at leaving London. You, I mean'. He wore it as a tiepin that night, and promised always to wear it 'in memory of the dearest girl I have met for long. That girl is Mary Victoria.'
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Victoria Regina: Winter (1.4, Granada, 1964)
"What is one to do? There are so many of them - far too many, as you say - and social conditions make it so difficult, you can't get rid of ignorance in a day, Mrs. Clayton!"
"No, nor in a lifetime if one does nothing. Indifference, prejudice, class distinction; all help."
"Help?"
"Have helped, most certainly, to make Windsor what no self-respecting place ought to be."
"Would you wish to get rid of class distinction, Mrs. Clayton?"
"I would wish to get rid of anything, ma'am, which prevents people from recognising their responsibilities."
#victoria regina#classic tv#granada#winter#1964#laurence housman#peter wildeblood#stuart latham#patricia routledge#max adrian#jameson clark#dorothy reynolds#lloyd pearson#kevin brennan#rosamond burne#ernest milton#ian wilson#george curzon#charles cullum#john h. moore#christopher steele#having been in some ways sidelined by the plot of Albert's death in Autumn‚ Victoria is once again centre stage for Winter. dealing with#her final decades as queen‚ the play opens on VR receiving old friend Disraeli (a welcome return for Max Adrian‚ here playing Disraeli as#an old and tired man compared to the twinkling politician of Autumn) before quickly taking in meetings with a reformer of public life and#then a group of bishops. the effect is to present a queen who is as strong of spirit and mettle as she ever was‚ but who is gradually#living out of time and touch with her country; Mrs Clayton is something of a grotesque and the scene clearly has a comic element‚ but she's#also right when she talks about improving conditions for the poor and updating infrastructure. even the bishops are able to appreciate#changing times and evolving views. but Victoria is so steeped in tradition that she risks belonging to an age entirely separate from her#people. Housman was a gay‚ feminist reformer so it's fairly obvious where his sympathies lie‚ but he also lived through the period this ep#covers: his portrait of the queen is not without affection‚ and the series ends on a note of public celebration with the diamond jubilee
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Young and Innocent (The Girl Was Young) (1937) Alfred Hitchcock
August 13th 2022
#young and innocent#the girl was young#1937#alfred hitchcock#nova pilbeam#derrick de marney#edward rigby#percy marmont#mary clare#john longden#george curzon#basil radford#coins for candles
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Hardwick’s Euston Arch
The story of the #arch at #Euston station #PhilipHardwick
The circularity of history. When George and Robert Stephenson conceived their plan for what was to be the world’s first long distance passenger railway, they planned to run the line from Euston Square to Birmingham, which did not gain city status until 1889. However, in order to get their bill through Parliament, which they did in May 1833, they had to bow to objections from local land owners and…
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#Augustus Pugin#Boxmoor#Curzon Street#Dan Cruickshank#Euston Arch#George Stephenson#Philip Hardwick#propylaeum
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Alleppey, Kerala, India: Alappuzha or Alleppey is the administrative headquarters of Alappuzha district in the state of Kerala, India. The Backwaters of Alappuzha are one of the most popular tourist attractions in India which attracts millions of domestic and international tourists. A town with canals, backwaters, beaches, and lagoons, Alappuzha was described by George Curzon, Viceroy of India at the start of the 20th century, as the "Venice of the East." Hence, it is known as the "Venetian Capital" of Kerala. Wikipedia
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Alfred Munnings, Study of George Curzon, Groom, 1908
Oil on canvas
Collection of the Munnings Art Museum, Colchester, Essex
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F1 x Star Trek Headcanons
Okay lads, this might not be everyone’s cup of tea but I’d love to present you some of my Star Trek x F1 headcanons that I developed with dear @abovecalamity. If you have any comments or additions, please drop me an ask/message!
Half Vulcan!Oscar!!! The neutral face, the apathy, the ‘lack’ of excitement and everything fits so well (I NEED SOMEONE TO DRAW HIM WITH THE EARS)
Vulcan!Oscar’s best side kirk kick, Lando!
Oscar’s mum being human and him being actually a bit more in touch with his emotions that way
Baby Vulcan!Oscar!!!! Him being very young in Vulcan years and being mocked for it sometimes
Vulcan!Mark. Now listen, if anyone it’s him. And he is pretty old. Like around 100.
Lando touching Oscar’s hand and Oscar getting confused af because why my teammate kissed me rn???
Oscar teaching Lando how to Ozh'esta (Vulcan kiss with fingers) and them doing it in public (appearing goofy but also giving Mark a heart attack due to embarrassment)
Imagine how much funnier the Alpine fiasco would be! “I merely stated facts! I didn’t agree to drive for them”
Baby’s first pon farr???? With Lando maybe??
Gay little Vulcan fashion robes for Oscar (not the bowl cut tho, my brain cannot comprehend that)
Directly quoting @abovecalamity :“Ok but Lando’s voice just popped up in my mind asking “but WHY would u suppress your emotions like that 🙄” “It’s managing them, controlling them” “but WHY would u.” Silly illogical human!!!
Oscar with an IDIC helmet design.
Oscar’s discomfort from constant touch (thanks Lando), loud noises and strong scents. Poor baby has to wear earplugs everywhere.
And some random headcanons
Nico Rosberg as Lwaxana Troi. Outfits explain everything. So does weird horny aunt energy. And yes, jokes on you, he reads minds.
Danny ricc is giving trill because he has SEEN things and lived enough lifetime to be super chill about them
However, at the same time, Nando is giving Curzon Dax and I won’t elaborate. You would understand if you saw that specific Zhian'tara deep space 9 episode (03x25).
Bajoran!Seb!! Imagine his cute little nose ridges and political activism.
Ferengi!Guenther Steiner. And a full Ferengi shenanigans episode with Ferengi!Gene (they are committing fraud).
Rescued Ex-Borg!Max à la Seven of Nine. The obsession with perfection, letting himself go a little with help. Obviously Janeway!Christian Horner although I know they are nothing alike as personalities. But he loves his little rescue borg so much ok??? (And obviously, skin-tight jumpsuits for Max).
Cringefail Augment!George à la Julian Bashir. He is cringe, idealistic and impressionable. He is also super fast. You get it.
Hologram!Charles because he is too beautiful to be true!!! Obligatory hologram sassiness and you can just turn him off if he starts to annoy you!
That’s it for now! Again, if you have any comments or additions, please drop me an ask/message, I’m super inspired about this rn.
#f1 x star trek#star trek crossover#crossover#crossover headcanons#f1 x star trek crossover#oscar piastri#landoscar#lando norris#mark webber#nico rosberg#daniel ricciardo#fernando alonso#charles leclerc#max verstappen#christian horner#george russel
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What could've been Animaze ..iNC during the 2010s
Talent pool (Note: any voice actor marked with * is union-only):
Steve Blum*
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn*
Crispin Freeman*
Kari Wahlgren*
Johnny Yong Bosch
Yuri Lowenthal*
Dave Wittenberg*
Roger Craig Smith*
Laura Bailey*
Travis Willingham*
Cherami Leigh
J.B. Blanc*
Sam Riegel*
Liam O'Brien*
Amy Kincaid*
Troy Baker*
Matthew Mercer
Joe Romersa*
Fleet Cooper*
Dyanne DiRosario*
Jennifer Love Hewitt*
Brian Hallisay*
Spike Spencer
Amanda Winn Lee*
Jaxon Lee*
Kyle Hebert
Ben Pronsky
Bob Buchholz
Richard Cansino
Murphy Dunne*
Carolyn Hennesy*
Jerry Gelb*
Adam Sholder
Ezra Weisz
Cristina Vee
Bryce Papenbrook
Michael Sorich
Richard Epcar
Ellyn Stern
Tony Oliver
Kirk Thornton
Lexi Ainsworth*
Aria Noelle Curzon
Grace Caroline Currey*
Michael Forest
Erik Davies
Adam Bobrow
Joshua Seth
Junie Hoang*
Kirk Baily*
Tom Fahn
Jonathan Fahn
Dorothy Elias-Fahn
Melissa Fahn
Stephen Apostolina*
René Rivera*
Deborah Sale Butler
Kevin Brief
Michael Gregory*
Riva Spier*
Cassandra Morris
Erica Mendez
Erika Harlacher
Erica Lindbeck
Marieve Herington
Kira Buckland
John Rubinstein*
Kim Matula*
Brittany Lauda
J. Grant Albrecht*
Michael McConnohie
Steve Bulen*
Dan Woren
Derek Stephen Prince
Wendee Lee
Edie Mirman
Jason C. Miller
Taliesin Jaffe*
John Snyder
Robbie Daymond
Ray Chase
Kaiji Tang
David Vincent
Christina Carlisi*
Christopher Corey Smith
Cindy Robinson
Rachel Robinson
Jessica Boone
Lauren Landa
Megan Hollingshead
Jalen K. Cassell
Doug Erholtz
Michelle Ruff
Gregory Cruz*
John Bishop*
Matt Kirkwood*
Lara Jill Miller*
Carol Stanzione
Steve Staley
Dave Mallow
Mona Marshall*
Darrel Guilbeau
Robert Martin Klein
Robert Axelrod
William Frederick Knight
Lex Lang
Sandy Fox
Joey Camen*
Randy McPherson*
Jad Mager
Richard Miro
Milton James
Anthony Pulcini
Douglas Rye
Patrick Seitz
Keith Silverstein
Jamieson Price
Skip Stellrecht*
Stoney Emshwiller*
G.K. Bowes
Alyss Henderson
Patricia Ja Lee
Peggy O'Neal
Carrie Savage
Melodee Spevack
Jennifer Alyx
Julie Ann Taylor
Sherry Lynn
Brad Venable
Christine Marie Cabanos
Greg Chun
LaGloria Scott
Steve Kramer
Melora Harte
Rebecca Forstadt*
Kyle McCarley
Mela Lee
Karen Strassman
Faye Mata
Laura Post
Kayla Carlyle*
Brina Palencia
Connor Gibbs
Brianne Siddall*
Barbara Goodson
Loy Edge
Jay Lerner
Jennie Kwan
Max Mittelman
Jessica Straus*
Alexis Tipton
Fryda Wolff
Michele Specht
J.D. Garfield
Debra Jean Rogers*
Julie Maddalena
Carrie Keranen
Tara Sands
Matthew Hustin
Cody MacKenzie
Bridget Hoffman*
Colleen O'Shaughnessey
Grant George
Jessica Gee
Jeff Nimoy*
Peter Lurie*
Brian Beacock
Paul St. Peter
Chris Jai Alex
Dan Lorge*
Ewan Chung*
Steve Cassling*
Philece Sampler
Stephanie Sheh
Sam Fontana
Ben Diskin
Juliana Donald*
Michael O'Keefe*
Christina Gallegos*
Tara Platt
Keith Anthony*
Beau Billingslea
David Lodge*
Kim Strauss
Eddie Jones*
William Bassett*
Kim Mai Guest*
Caitlin Glass
Hannah Alcorn
Ron Roggé*
Camille Chen*
Ethan Rains*
Yutaka Maseba*
Joe J. Thomas
Michael Sinterniklaas
Erin Fitzgerald
Joe Ochman
Marc Diraison
Xanthe Huynh
Brianna Knickerbocker
Dean Wein*
Michael McCarty*
#Animaze#ZRO Limit Productions#Steve Blum#Crispin Freeman#Kari Wahlgren#Laura Bailey#Travis Willingham#Sam Riegel#Liam O'Brien#Matthew Mercer#Jennifer Love Hewitt#Brian Hallisay#Spike Spencer#Troy Baker#Cristina Vee#Johnny Yong Bosch#Yuri Lowenthal#Mary Elizabeth McGlynn#Jessica Boone
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The Scotland Yard Mystery (1934)
AKA The Living Dead, The Case of the Missing Coffins
#the scotland yard mystery#the living dead#gerald du maurier#george curzon#belle chrystall#grete natzler#1930s movies#thomas bentley#crime#mystery#movie posters
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 9th April 1923
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Monday 9th April — Hackwood¹
Have been spending a few days here … a simpatico party … Lady Curzon, glittering, gracious and a supreme hostess, all the Duggans;² Lady Patricia Herbert³ (the very nicest girl in London, although Lady Mary Ashley⁴ runs her neck and neck …) … Mrs Vansittart,⁵ an affected American, Paul of Serbia⁶ …. Lord Curzon is away doing a Coué cure⁷ for the benefit of his leg or brow beating some important conference for the welfare of civilisation … I forget which. Lady Curzon told us of a conversation she had with Lord Balfour⁸ a few evenings ago. He was unusually playful and she depressed and discouraged, she is subject to unaccountable fits of Weltschmerz,⁹ which result, I think, from something unsatisfied in her.¹⁰ He tried to console her and talked to her beautifully about life and all she had to live for … her husband, the world’s most striking and brilliant man … her children charming … her friends many … her beauty unsurpassed. Next day he wrote her an inimitable note to say how much he had enjoyed being next to her. She, delighted, said to Lady Cunard¹¹ as she read it: ‘AJB is an angel — I should like to kiss him on the forehead’. Maud repeated this to him and his only comment was: ‘Why the forehead?’ Maud Cunard motored to Hackwood with Serge Obolensky¹² for what she calls ‘the day in the country’ on Sunday. They arrived at six o’clock. She pretended never to have seen plus fours before and said ‘And what has little Paul got on? And Chips¹³ too what are they?’ She made us rock with laughter for two hours with stories about herself and her hatred of the country, etc. She said that all Nancy’s troubles were due to the fact that her father ‘my dear at the age of 12 had put her … put her on a horse, a four-legged horse’. As she was leaving we loaded her car with guns, tennis racquets, golf clubs, etc. She was much flustered at this or pretended to be and shook hands with a footman and ‘bobbed’ to the butler and was amazing but delicious … all pink and white, like a sweet, and dressed in a costume de sport made by Vionnet.¹⁴ Serge was anxious to return as he is wooing Alice Astor.¹⁵ I introduced them … I shall now have this new romance on my conscience.
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1. Hackwood Park, near Basingstoke in Hampshire, rented by Lord Curzon from 1906 until 1925.
2. Lady Curzon’s children by her first marriage: Alfred Duggan (1903–64), who became a minor novelist; Hubert Duggan (1904–43), Tory MP for Acton from 1931 to 1943 and anti-appeaser in the 1930s; and (Grace) Marcella Duggan (1907–95).
3. Patricia Herbert (1904–94), by courtesy Lady Patricia Herbert from 1913, daughter of the 15th Earl of Pembroke and 12th Earl of Montgomery, married in 1928 William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden (1903–48). She was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth from 1937 until 1994.
4. Lady Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper (1902–36), daughter of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, married in 1928 Napier George Henry Sturt (1896–1940), who in 1919 succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Alington of Crichel. He died on active service in Egypt during the Second World War, though of drink rather than in action.
5. Gladys Robinson-Duff (1892–1928), daughter of General William C. Heppenheimer of the United States, married in 1921 Robert Gilbert Vansittart (1881–1957), who would be Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1930 to 1938, and who would be raised to the peerage in 1941 as 1st Baron Vansittart. Vansittart was also an accomplished novelist, playwright and poet.
6. Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893–1976) had known Channon at Oxford and would remain one of his closest friends, and be Prince Regent of Yugoslavia (the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) from 1934 to 1941 during the minority of Peter II. He was the nephew of King Peter I and married Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark (1903–97), sister-in-law of Channon’s other closest friend, the Duke of Kent. After treating with the Germans in 1941 Paul was forced from Yugoslavia and forbidden ever to return; the post-war communist regime stripped him of his property and proclaimed him an enemy of the state. Until 1945 the British authorities held him in Kenya under house arrest. Serbia rehabilitated him posthumously in 2011, after which he was reburied with Princess Olga and their son Nicholas.
7. A psychotherapy-based cure featuring auto-suggestion, fashionable but heavily criticised at the time, developed by Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie (1857–1926), a French psychologist.
8. A. J. Balfour, raised to an earldom in 1922.
9. World-weariness.
10. Curzon was desperate for a male heir (he had three daughters from his first marriage) to the earldom and marquessate he had obtained; various medical procedures had been followed to help Lady Curzon conceive, but no child resulted and the marriage was strained accordingly.
11. Maud Alice Burke (1872–1948), born in San Francisco, married in 1895 Sir Bache Cunard, 3rd Bt (1851–1925), grandson of the shipping line’s founder. They had lived largely apart since 1911, Cunard basing himself in Leicestershire where he enjoyed field sports. In London with their daughter Nancy Clara (1896–1965), Lady Cunard – who after her husband’s death became known as ‘Emerald’ – established one of the leading salons of the era, which thrived until the Second World War. After separating from her husband she became the mistress of Sir Thomas Beecham, the conductor, and funded many of his musical projects.
12. Prince Sergei (‘Serge’) Platonovich Obolensky Neledinsky-Meletsky (1890–1978) had been educated at Oxford and became part of the Russian diaspora after the revolution. He emigrated to America and became a successful businessman.
13. The first time in the diaries that he refers to his nickname.
14. Madeleine Vionnet (1876–1975) was one of Paris’s leading fashion designers of the interwar years.
15. Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902–56), daughter of John Jacob Astor IV. She and Obolensky married in 1924 and divorced in 1932. She would marry four times before her death at the age of 54.
#chips channon#channon diaries#1923#1920s#grace curzon#alfred duggan#hubert duggan#marcella rice#patricia hambleden#mary alington#gladys vansittart#prince paul of yugoslavia#george curzon#arthur balfour#emerald cunard#prince serge obolensky#nancy cunard#madeleine vionnet#alice astor#hackwood park
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It's that time again. A few years ago I decided I would try and watch two films I'd never seen before each week. This year I've watched 374.
These are some of the ones that stood out.
JANUARY
The Leopard (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1963). Watched 1.1.23 at BFI Southbank
Benediction (dir. Terence Davies, 2021). Watched 11.1.23
Gangubai Kathiawadi (dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 2022). Watched 17.1.23
The Swimmer (dir. Frank Perry, 1968). Watched 30.1.23.
Comizi d’amore (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964). Watched 31.1.23
FEBRUARY
Ugetsu Monogatari (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953). Watched 7.2.23
Wings (dir. Larisa Shepitko, 1966). Watched 22.2.23
Mirror (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975). Watched 24.2.23
MARCH
Born in Flames (dir. Lizzie Borden, 1983). Watched 2.3.23
Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang, 2000). Watched 5.3.23
Taste of Cherry (dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1997). Watched 6.3.23
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975). Watched 11.2.23 at BFI Southbank
Judex (dir. Georges Franju, 1963). Watched 12.3.23
Transit (dir. Christian Petzold, 2018). Watched 14.3.23
A Man Escaped (dir. Robert Bresson, 1956). Watched 19.3.23
Bellissima (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1951). Watched 31.3.23
APRIL
Army of Shadows (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969). Watched 2.4.23
Jacquot de Nantes (dir. Agnès Varda, 1991). Watched 10.4.23
Where is the friend’s house? (dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1987). Watched 13.4.23
John Wick: Chapter 4 (dir. Chad Stahelski, 2023). Watched 16.4.23 at BFI IMAX
Charulata (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1964). Watched 27.4.23
Night and Fog (dir. Alain Resnais, 1956). Watched 28.4.23
MAY
Thirst (dir. Park Chan-wook, 2009). Watched 3.5.23
Return to Seoul (dir. Davy Chou, 2023). Watched 7.5.23 at Curzon Hoxton
The Eight Mountains (dir. Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch, 2023) Watched 12.5.23 at Curzon Hoxton
The Five Devils (dir. Léa Mysius, 2022). Watched 24.5.23
Nostalgia for the Light (dir. Patricio Guzmán, 2010). Watched 31.5.23
JUNE
Citadel (dir. John Smith, 2021). Watched 1.6.23
It’s Always Fair Weather (dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1955). Watched 10.6.23 at BFI Southbank 35mm.
Service for Ladies (dir. Alexander Korda, 1932). Watched 11.6.23 at BFI Southbank 35mm *nitrate*
And Life Goes On (dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1992). Watched 14.6.23
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy (dir. Pamela Green, 2018). Watched 19.6.23
King and Country (dir. Joseph Losey, 1964). Watched 20.6.23
JULY
London (dir. Patrick Keiller, 1994). Watched 3.7.23
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (dir. J. Lee Thompson, 1972). Watched 14.7.23
Barbie (dir. Greta Gerwig, 2023). Watched 21.7.23 at BFI Southbank
Oppenheimer (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2023). Watched 23.7.23 at BFI IMAX. 70mm IMAX
I’m Not There (dir. Todd Haynes, 2007). Watched 28.7.23
AUGUST
Three Blind Mice (dir. William A. Seiter, 1938). Watched 17.8.23
Corridor of Mirrors (dir. Terence Young, 1948). Watched 22.8.23
World of Apu (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1959). Watched 26.8.23
L’argent (dir. Robert Bresson, 1983). Watched 31.8.23
SEPTEMBER
Past Lives (dir. Celine Song, 2023). Watched 3.9.23 at Curzon Soho.
Austenland (dir. Jerusha Hess, 2013). Watched 8.9.23
Lady Vengeance (dir. Park Chan-wook, 2005). Watched 19.9.23
News from Home (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1977). Watched 20.9.23
Edge of Tomorrow (dir. Doug Liman, 2014). Watched 28.9.23
OCTOBER
Killers of the Flower Moon (dir. Martin Scorsese, 2023). Watched 8.1.23 at Royal Festival Hall. London Film Festival
Judgement at Nuremberg (dir. Stanley Kramer, 1961). Watched 12.10.23
The Stranger and the Fog (dir. Bahram Beyzai, 1974). Watched 14.10.23 at BFI Southbank. London Film Festival. 35mm
I am Not a Witch (dir. Rungano Nyoni, 2017). Watched 26.10.23
Contraband (dir. Michael Powell, 1940). Watched 30.10.23 at BFI Southbank
NOVEMBER
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010). Watched 9.11.23.
Anatomy of a Fall (dir. Justine Triet, 2023). Watched 15.11.23 at Curzon Hoxton
Citizens Band (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1977). Watched 21.11.23
DECEMBER
Oh, Rosalinda!! (dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1955). Watched 2.12.23 at BFI Southbank. 35mm
How to Have Sex (dir. Molly Manning Walker, 2023). Watched 10.12.23 at the Garden cinema.
Tish (dir. Paul Sng, 2023). Watched 22.12.23
Fallen Angels (dir. Wong Kar-wai, 1996). Watched 29.12.23
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Other highlights included: Stop Making Sense (twice!) on BFI IMAX. Tears of joy, dancing in my seat. Black Narcissus on nitrate at the BFI Southbank. Crying all the way through The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp at BFI Southbank. Showing someone L’Atalante and I Know Where I’m Going, two of my favourite films, in my favourite cinema (again, BFI Southbank). The terrible Fast X, in Vue Leicester Square with one of my best friends. Walking through Shoreditch on a Saturday night, maybe the most heterosexual place imaginable, to watch Bottoms at Curzon Aldgate. Talking and crying about Jonathan Demme at a house party with a stranger. Sitting and sobbing, breathless, after How to Have Sex - steeling myself and walking home thinking about my life, the lives of all the young women I know. Watching Aftersun for the second time at the beginning of the year with my youngest sister, floods of tears overtaking us both. Seven Samurai on the BFI IMAX with my best friends. The Hunger on 35mm at the Prince Charles Cinema, with more of my best friends. And screening Some Like it Hot on 16mm in the tiny theatre at the back of Ümit and Son in Clapton, surrounded by loving, beautiful people who make me who I am.
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Excerpts from Mary Curzon- Pt. 2
**Following all the times Mary and Curzon spent together after meeting one another, Mary writes a letter to her father (Levi Leiter) telling him about Curzon before she continued her European trip
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Her infatuation was too intense to conceal it entirely from her father, and she adopted the familiar device of belittling it, knowing that her mother would be sending home more highly-coloured accounts:
The most interesting man I have seen is George Curzon, son of Lord Scarsdale, Member of Parliament, very clever and rising. A great traveller, and author of many books on the East. He is considered one of the cleverest young men of the day and one of the hopes of the Conservative Party. I wish I might fall a little in love with him. You would like him, as he is a hard worker. But the unfortunate fact is that I only think him nice, and he only thinks me nice, so I can't make up any romance to interest and excite you, but I'll try again!
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**Mary and her mother then traveled to France, then to Zurich, to Scotland, and briefly back to England- where she would meet Curzon again. It's worth noting that during their time apart, Mary and Curzon continued their correspondence together, which author Nigel Nicolson describes Mary sending homesick letters to Curzon- not being homesick for America, but for England now
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She met Curzon only once again that year, for a few hours. Ignoring her protests, he shut himself up in lodgings at Norwood near the Crystal Palace, to write his Persian book: 'Here I grind, grind, grind, morning, noon, and night. I love it. I was never in better health or spirits. I think of living here permanently in total isolation from the world', hardly the sentiments a young girl hopes to hear from the man she loves. Another planned rendezvous was cancelled by a three-day visit to his constituency. Duty had priority over dalliance, as she was soon to learn. On the day before the Leiters sailed for America, they eventually met in a London hotel. Mary sang for him. He gave her reports of three speeches he had made in Southport, and a new photograph of himself to replace one which she had begged from him earlier, 'so that I might not be depicted as such a monster in whatever part of your palatial house my likeness is permitted to figure'.
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The Saint: The Old Treasure Story (4.9, ITC, 1965)
"Are you asking us to go to the Virgin Islands with you?"
"By the next plane. I've a boat in Saint Thomas, it's equipped and waiting."
"Simon, could we?"
"Why not? It appeals to my buccaneering spirit."
#the saint#the old treasure story#itc#1965#leslie charteris#ronald duncan#roger moore#jack hedley#erica rogers#reg lye#frank wolff#jill curzon#robert hutton#roy patrick#joby blanshard#timmy gardner#george lowdell#walter henry#and so s4 (and the black and white era) of The Saint draws to a close. this was the shortest series the show ever had‚ and audiences would#be waiting over a year for Simon to return (in glorious colour!). we go out on a suitably showy episode; once again Moore is directing and#now those caves from 4.6 finally make sense as an investment‚ as they're (presumably) reused heavily here. Simon meets up with an old#friend who had part of a map to Blackbeard's treasure; this first act in Cornwall‚ on a dark and stormy night‚ is some of Moore's best#directing work (Wolff's entrance is a wonderful bit of dark melodrama style). also noteworthy is the score in the first act; it sounds#quite different to the usual suite of music composed for the Saint but heavily recycled throughout the show‚ and may even be specially#composed for the episode. the cast is starry with genuine film stars like Hutton and Wolff and most happily Erica Rogers‚ who was so badly#misused by the series in earlier episodes‚ gets a nice‚ fully realised character as if by way of apology. there's some impressive stuff#besides those cave sets‚ including a pretty good explosion and a daring sword fight over a perilous fall. a pretty strong way to bow out#all things considered. and so to colour‚ and for the first time‚ to episodes i may never have seen before... but maybe a break first eh?#OH! ALSO: Simon at one point prevents Bob Hutton hitting his gf and tells him off for it. changing our tune‚ Mr Saint..?#about bloody time!
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