family life ( us : wednesday 's child ) is a 1971 british drama film directed by ken loach from a screenplay by david mercer .

it is a remake of in two minds , an episode of the bbc 's wednesday play series first transmitted by the bbc in march 1967 , which was also written by mercer and directed by loach ,

family life ( 1971 british film )

adrian mole : slice of british early - teen - to - forties life .
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the time of your life : slice of life gathering at a san francisco dive .
it ' s always handy to have a commentary on a british film when the commentator has compiled , edited and written most of the encyclopaedia of british film , published in 2003 .
title family life year 1971 formats dvd , cinema distributor ( s ) leisureview ltd . , kestrel films ltd classified date ( s ) 04 / 04 / 2002 main language english bbfc reference azf030067
the national film school ( as it was first named ) opened in 1971 , the culmination of a major effort by the industry and government to create an institution to educate and train talent for the british film industry .
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rather than the relatively short , intense haunting depicted in the conjuring , perron says her family lived in the 14 - room farmhouse from january 1971 until 1980 .
was 10 years old in 1971 , the youngest of 10 children born to a pakistani father and white british mother living in salford . in his play and screenplay
our guest star is the beautiful vera day who discusses her interesting life and career in film .
researchers can look at a variety of scripts , including an annotated camera script for in two minds ( 1967 ) , one of loach’s wednesday plays which was later adapted for film and renamed family life ( 1971 ) . the archive holds several versions of this script .
“if you love life , don ' t waste time , for time is what life is made up of . ”
made in 1960 by the british insurance association , this short film warns of the dangers of driving a motorcar .
the family is a repressive institution in
family life
. ken loach shows how the
rebel
becomes a patient , a clinical case . the girl in question is misunderstood - not just by her own family , but by the state and doctors ( the science ) .
it’s now a classic family movie loved by generations , but the 1971 adaptation of roald dahl’s 1964 novel charlie and the chocolate factory has one big critic – the late author himself .
jm : family life seems to be obstructed by the lack of an underlying dialectic connecting the family with the wider society ; it was isolated . this lack of dialectical connection would seem to end up in pessimism .
he belongs to a roman catholic family of english and irish ancestry . his family was close - knit until his parents divorced when he was a toddler .
the proud family for the most part , especially prominent in the earlier episodes .
the schoolgirls diary is about the life of a teenage girl who wishes her father would pay more attention to her and her family instead of spending his whole life at work . that ' s the whole story .
despite the horrific murder that kicks of the plot , boys life is mainly about cory ' s life in his hometown of zephyr .
martin christopher freeman is a popular english actor . this biography profiles his childhood , family , personal life , acting career , achievements and other facts .
pictured : british rugby - playing student , 19 , who drowned . . .
hayley mills is an award winning english actress . check out this biography to know about her childhood , family life , achievements and fun facts about her .
firdous bamji ( 1997–present ) , leigh lawson ( 1975–84 ) , roy boulting ( m . 1971 ; div . 1977 )
scottish ex - gangster jimmy boyle received a life sentence for murder only to turn his life around , receive parole and become an acclaimed artist .
1971 . drama . director : frank nesbitt . stars john mills , carol white & stuart wilson . dulcima , a girl treated as a drudge by her family , lifts herself from her environment by becoming a housekeeper .
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frances ha is largely slice of life . while there is definitely a story arc ( primarily a character arc for the titular protagonist ) , much of the film consists of individual snippets of her life .
hayley mills was only twelve when she was discovered by the british film director j . lee thompson . she was then cast in the 1959 british crime drama ' tiger bay ' which also starred her father playing the lead role .
hearing is believing the star of this documentary is rachel flowers , who was born prematurely and went blind , but learned to play music and grew into a vibrant performer . the film follows two years in her family’s life .
hayley mills married director roy boulting in 1971 . their son crispian mills is a renowned singer . the couple divorced after six years .
determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison , a scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home .
toronto international film festival the website for the toronto international film festival . check out the latest film news and links to the bell lightbox , the film reference library , cinematheque ontario , sprockets , reel learning , film circuit , canada ' s top ten , and related features .
five yorkshiremen try to survive after the british rail is bought out by a private company .
is british , he famously refused an obe citing his opposition to the monarchy and the historic british empire which he categorised as exploitative , a theme he commonly employs in his films .
sound magazine . it is one of the greatest debuts in the history of british cinema .
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in 2001 , he was cast as jamie in the television film ‘men only’ and landed his first prominent role in the british mockumentary sitcom ‘the office’ .
the original series ran for seven years from 1971 , but was constantly re - commissioned throughout the 1980s and 1990s due to its popularity .
the book thief is surprisingly slice of life , considering where it takes place .
ulysses : a slice of life cooked so rare the blood is still pumping .
watership down is a 1978 british animated adventure drama film written , produced and directed by martin rosen and based on the book of the same name by richard adams . it was financed by a consortium of british financial institutions . originally released on 19 october 1978 , the film was an immediate success and it became the sixth most popular film of 1979 at the british box office . [ 1 ] it was one of the first animated feature films to be presented in dolby .
movies i would have liked to have seen nominated for outstanding british film instead ? my first choice would be locke with tom hardy in a revelatory performance as a man with a life altering secret to tell his family . problem is he has to disclose this information over the phone while on a car journey to london he doesn’t want to make .
1964 . comedy . directed by ralph thomas and starring dirk bogarde , sylva koscina , robert morley and leo mckern . british intelligence sends a czech - speaking british writer to prague on a mission .
as a founder member of the trailblazing black audio film collective , john akomfrah has long been one of the key figures in documenting black british life . the bafc’s first film , handsworth songs ( 1986 ) , for example , was an extraordinary , collage - like essay based on the idea that the social unrest in the eponymous area was the result of the protracted suppression of black presence by british society .
1949 . directed by richard fisher . this short film documentary features shaw desmond , founder of the international institute for psychical research . shaw relates several famous british hauntings .
love and rockets by los bros hernandez started off as grab - bag of surrealism , slice of life and magical realism . with time , the slice of life elements predominate .
here we have an annotated version with the original title ‘scenes of family life’ , the images below showing the scenes where jan arrives at a psychiatric hospital , with notes and ideas in loach’s hand .
1971 . lost documentary feature about the great days of variety with ben warris , davey kaye , sally barnes , peter cavanagh , ken goodwin & more .
martin john christopher freeman was born on 8th september 1971 to philomena norris and geoffrey freeman at hamshire , england . he is the youngest of five siblings .
one foot in heaven is about the life and struggles of a rural protestant minister raising a family and tending to his flock in early 20th - century iowa . there is no central plot or story arc , just an episodic portrait of the preacher , his family , and the townspeople as the years pass .
les petits mythos : slice of greek mythology figure kid life ( yes , really ) .
happy go lucky : slice of always cheerful bubbly cloudcuckoolander cool teacher taking driving lessons life .
the original ratboy ' s kingdom centered around the title character ' s fairly peaceful life .
in family life , a troubled nineteen - year - old’s mental condition is exacerbated by her unfeeling relatives , and the cold and ineffective solutions of medical practitioners , who prescribe drug and electro - convulsive therapy .
1936 . directors : harry watt & basil wright . narrated by pat jackson . a critically acclaimed british documentary film about the operation of the 30s royal mail train delivery service .
a deeply heartfelt british film that deservedly garnered arnold the prix du jury prize at cannes , red road is a raw but beautifully observed account of tragedy , grief and atonement .
ricki and the flash is a look into the life of an ageing wannabe rock star who ' s estranged from her family . although she reconnects with her children , it ' s not the bulk of the film - and more emphasis is on ricki ' s own lifestyle .
however , the family , plus a student hitchhiker called robin williams , climbed aboard the boat ' s rubber dinghy .
slice of life also doesn ' t have to be set in the world as we know it . when it is , the tv industry in particular calls it
low concept
( in contrast to high concept ) . several webcomics are slice of life , while the ones labeled
real life
are usually not real life at all , but tend to fall into some brand of speculative fiction , or at the least life embellished . not to be confused with the journal comic , although they may overlap . for a complete index , see slice - of - life webcomics .
are this : just moments of real life ( or staged real life ) presented for the camera .
actuality films
was the genre designation used back then . examples of actuality films include :
) plays gary hook , an inexperienced young british solider sent into belfast during the most intense period of the troubles in 1971 . hook gets separated from his unit during a deadly riot and must survive the night as he tries to navigate the dangerous streets of a disorienting and unfriendly city .
it was a tale beyond belief : a family of five , including twin 10 - year - old boys , surviving more than a month in the pacific on a tiny life - raft with almost no food or water .
n 15 february 1971 enoch powell stood up to speak at the carshalton and banstead young conservatives club in surrey . it was three years since the tory mp had made his incendiary
my girl merges this with that nostalgia show to show the life of a suburban preteen girl in the summer of 1971 . the story is not driven by plot , and is mostly a look at what vada does that summer . oh and she lives in a funeral parlor .
documentary made in the 1950s about life on a sheep station in the isolated outback , australia . great to see the boundary dogs on motorcycles & the counting methods of the herds along with daily life .
enid blyton ' s noddy books follows the life of a wooden boy who lives in toy town .
a 19 years old london girl received agressive psychiatric treatments for her schizophrenic behaviour by a doctor who still wants her family to insure the guard of the child without any regards to the facts that it is this family who ' s agravating her situation .
a family man a cutthroat headhunter ( gerard butler ) who’s competing with a colleague ( alison brie ) for a promotion finds his ambitions threatened when his son receives a cancer diagnosis . not to be confused with the brett ratner film “the family man , ” this drama also stars gretchen mol , willem dafoe and alfred molina .
freeman received his first award in 2004 from the ‘washington dc area film critics association’ for the film ‘love actually’ and the same year he also took home the award for ‘best male comedy performance’ for his role in the british sitcom ‘hardware’ at the ‘rose d’or’ award function .
family life is a remake of david mercer’s tv play in two minds , which had been filmed by ken loach four years previously . the broadcast of the latter provoked controversy , owing to its negative portrayal of the received treatment for schizophrenia . family life , like in two minds , promotes the theories of psychiatrist r . d . laing , who did not believe that schizophrenia was a brain disease but a psychological syndrome that “cannot be understood without understanding despair” .
even so , a significant – if under - seen and underrated – body of work exists that’s dedicated to exploring black british life in all its complexity , diversity , sadness and joy . here are 10 of the best .
diana dors talks to dick hills in 1976 and discusses her time in the film yield to the night – a film she was immensely proud of .
1946 . musical . a lost british short detailing where a composer ' s inspiration comes from and the london symphony orchestra .
visual artist and filmmaker steve mcqueen made his cinema debut with this provocative portrait of irish republican prisoners defying the british government .
later , she was in a relationship with british actor leigh lawson . she had her second son jason lawson with him .
tg : at that stage it’s david mercer , ken and me . and then a bit later mike riddall was very helpful . he played the progressive psychiatrist in family life but he’s not an actor ; he is a progressive psychiatrist .
is a british filmmaker whose style of filmmaking is often compared to the ' kitchen sink realism ' of 1960s british cinema . his films often involve lower classes and characters struggling with real - life issues . he mainly uses non - professionals or unknown actors , simply relying on people who have similar backgrounds or experiences to the characters in his scripts . although
though a british organization , most of bafta’s awards are not limited to uk produced movies except for one – the outstanding british film category . last year some of the nominees for this award had a tenuous claim to this distinction . in fact it was gravity starring sandra bullock and george clooney that won this honor in 2014 .
ramona quimby is slice of elementary school life . the books take place in different years in grade school , from kindergarten to fourth , but all capture that year of life excellently while being very light - hearted .
the first vietcong and fist alpha are pretty much about the everyday life of a green beret in vietnam .
1968 . a loving tribute to british music hall with lily morris and gus elen . featuring original archive film , rare prints , portraits and photographs , it traces what remains of the great music halls .
a family statement yesterday said :
charlton heston was seen by the world as larger than life . he was known for his chiselled jaw , broad shoulders and resonating voice , and , of course , for the roles he played .
their adventurous father dougal , a former mariner , promptly agreed and sold the family ' s impoverished staffordshire farm to fund the escape .
scum is a 1979 british crime drama film directed by alan clarke , portraying the brutality of life inside a british borstal . the script was originally made for the bbc ' s play for today strand in 1977 , however due to the violence depicted , it was withdrawn from broadcast . two years later , director alan clarke and scriptwriter roy minton remade it as a film , first shown on channel 4 in 1983 . by this time the borstal system had been reformed and eventually allowed the original tv version to be aired .
eddie redmayne’s amazing transformation into the physically ravaged scientist and felicity jones’ heartbreaking performance as jane aside , the theory of everything is a distinctively british film that i believe has the best chance of winning this category .
bernard sarron was art director on the film ; david anderson the production manager .
amarcord : the mundane details of a year in the life of villagers in a small town in fascist italy .
the web animation brewstew is a series of videos detailing tyler ' s childhood life , but in comedic form .
1971 . directed by malcolm leigh . two ' madams ' joanna lumley as ' fanny hill ' and penny brahms as ' lady chatterley ' have a wager as to who has the best brothel .
kl : well yes , obviously the biggest response we ' ve had to any film was cathy come home . this was because people identified with the family , not because we put up statistics about homelessness on the screen .
after her appearance in the 1975 film ‘the kingfisher caper’ , in which she played the lead role , she took a break from her film career for a while .
hayley mills won two awards for her role in ‘tiger bay’ : a berlin international film festival award and a bafta award for most promising newcomer to film in 1959 .
two fathers . 1971 . directed by gerry mill . stars colin douglas , barbara flynn & coral atkins . the iconic seventies drama series continues with the third and final series . ( s3 , e18 )
last november the family donated the ednamair to the national maritime museum cornwall in falmouth where more than 400 , 000 people have now seen it .
lee and linda also expanded their immediate family , having two children - - brandon , born in 1965 , and shannon , born in 1969 .
clerks : a day in the life of slackers who work at a convenience store and the video store next door .
otoko wa tsurai yo film series ( literally , it ' s tough being a man ) . from 1969 to 1995 , it had 48 different installments and held the title of
longest running film series
. all of them are slice of life romantic comedies with nearly identical plots .
based on a remarkable true story , the flying scotsman is an out - and - out inspirational , against - all - odds , crowd pleasing british film , which follows the turbulent life of cyclist graeme obree , who broke the world one hour record on a bike of his own revolutionary design , constructed out of scrap metal . . .
music is used sparingly on the soundtrack . the film is mainly dialogue - driven .
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thomas sean connery , born on august 25 , 1930 , began his life in the humblest of surroundings . he was the eldest of two sons born in edinburgh , scotland , to joseph and euphamia connery . his family was so poor that young thomas had to sleep in the bottom drawer of his parents ' dresser . he started working to help support the family at age nine , delivering milk and assisting a butcher . he left school at age thirteen . connery joined the british royal navy in 1946 , but received a medical discharge three years later .
five easy pieces is about a restless anti - hero trying to live up to his responsibilities to his family and his pregnant girlfriend , and failing . it simply follows along with the protagonist for a while , before the film ends .
in 1946 , alexander korda bought british lion . he kept the company but sold the freehold of the studios to king ' s college cambridge . the crown film unit , with many of the staff from the gpo blackheath unit , moved in and the government spent a lavish £146 , 000 on refurbishment and equipment . 75 films a year were produced for the central office of information by filmmakers who included john grierson , humphrey jennings and lotte reiniger . in 1949 , following yet another exhibition crisis in the uk film industry , the board of trade introduced the eady levy , a tax on box office takings that was redistributed to british film producers as a mechanism to boost british production .
makeup artist joyce bonelli reaches out to the kardashian clan on instagram . . . after the famous family ' fire ' and unfollow her on social media
papers relating to loach’s banned documentaries are also held in the collection . as early as 1969 , loach’s save the children fund film , commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of save the children in 1971 , caused controversy after the charity put a block on the film’s release . this resulted in a court case ruling that the film must not be destroyed , but instead locked in the vaults at the bfi . save the children gave permission for the film to be screened to the public for the first time last september as part of the bfi’s ken loach season .
oliver stone scripts and alan parker directs this british prison drama , based on a true story . an american student ( brad davis ) is caught smuggling hashish and faces years in a turkish prison . while his family at home attempt to have him freed , he undergoes hellish experiences in jail .
though she made very few onscreen appearances over the next two decades , she played a supporting role in the 2011 british comedy film ‘foster’ . she was also seen in the tv series ‘wild at heart’ , in which he played a supporting role . the show aired from 2007 to 2012 . her latest television appearance was in an episode of the british tv series ‘moving on’ .
whatever the outcome when the envelopes are opened on february 8 , you can be sure a fine example of british filmmaking will have been recognized and the remaining nominees will have received an opportunity for a wider audience . which british movie are you rooting for ? is there a film that you think should have been nominated instead ? share your bafta thoughts in the comments below .
the old order changeth . 1971 . directed by gerry mill . stars colin douglas , barbara flynn & coral atkins . the iconic seventies drama series continues with the third and final series . ( s3 , e19 )
1971 . western . stars lee van cleef , carroll baker & stuart whitman . a native american becomes an army officer tasked with investigating a murder . his only clue is buried in the victim ' s final words
a glimpse at the university of cambridge and student ' s life in 1945 and the surrounding streets and the town itself .
les musicos ( aka rob , web & c . ) : slice of up - and - coming rock band life .
mon oncle antoine lacks a traditional three - act structure with conflict and climax . it is instead a portrayal of the everyday life of the people of a rural quebec mining town , shortly before the social upheavals that would change their life forever .
season 6 of buffy the vampire slayer dealt with the scoobies ' day - to - day foray into grown up life .
company : slice of new york city life , with a bachelor , his three girlfriends and a number of married acquaintances .
loco roco 2 had extra cutscenes which included mostly that and described as
view of everyday life of the planet
.
tales of mu is a very detailed and nsfw first - person story about college life in a dnd - like setting .
lee signed a two - film contract , eventually bringing his family over to hong kong as well . the big boss , aka fists of fury in the u . s . , was released in 1971 and featured lee as the factory worker hero who has sworn off fighting yet enters combat to confront a murderous drug smuggling operation . combining his smooth jeet kune do athleticism with the high - energy theatrics of his performance in the green hornet , lee was the charismatic center of the film , which set new box office records in hong kong .
jesús after committing an assault , a teenager ( nicolás durán ) in santiago is forced to confront his father ( alejandro goic ) in a film inspired by a real - life hate crime in chile in 2012 .
danny boyle’s explosive british film tracks the misadventures of young men in edinburgh trying to find their way out of joblessness , aimless relationships and drug addiction . some are successful , while others hopelessly are not . based on irvine walsh’s novel , trainspotting melds grit with poetry , resulting in a film of harsh truths and stunning grace .
the 1980s saw a surge in activity for black british production and representation , encouraged in part by the arrival of channel 4 ( which put diverse programming at the centre of its remit ) in 1982 . since then , due to a combination of factors ( lack of training and funding , exodus of talent to the united states ) , there’s been a cycle of frustration in maintaining and developing the black british presence on film . while a significant breakthrough in its own right , for a long time ngozi onwurah’s 1995 welcome ii the terrordome stood as the only film by a black british woman ever to see uk release .
… yielding place to new . 1971 . directed by gerry mill . stars colin douglas , barbara flynn & coral atkins . the iconic seventies drama series continues with the third and final series . ( s3 , e20 )
pw : the problem is how to politicize a film without just tacking on a message .
future learning and skills – giving everyone the opportunity to build a lifelong relationship with film .
glimpses : early 1950s instructional film on how to use the telephone and how it works .
brandon lee was an action film star and the son of actor bruce lee . his untimely death was caused by a prop gun accident on the set of the film the crow .
17 year - old joanna is cool , stylish and determined to start a new life as an art student in swinging london .
bridge to terabithia stars two children and their made - of - imagination kingdom and the trials and tribulations of daily schoolkid life .
the amber brown books are the day - to - day adventures of a young girl who goes to school and has to deal with family , friend and general life problems , which include her parents ' divorce , her best friend moving away , and having trouble with school standardized testing .
lydia , to whom he was married for 64 years , was at his bedside when he died . a family spokesman did not disclose the cause of death .
1950s short film made by the british milk association on the loss of 6 . 4 million milk bottles a week . it ' s time to do your bit before the coal runs out . can you help mrs jones of 22 acacia grove ?
a chronicle of john lennon ' s first years , focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt mimi , who raised him , and his absentee mother julia , who re - entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life .
the robertsons left the port in january 1971 in a 43ft schooner called the lucette , on what was little more than a whim , after one of the twins , neil , asked why they could not sail around the world .
basically , paddington is found stranded in a london train station by the brown family . they bring him home and chaos ensues as the cub acclimates to his new environment . there are some bad people after paddington and , in the process of protecting him , the browns come to realize how important he is to their family .
on the surface , lisa cholodenko’s sunny , heartwarming comic drama about family life doesn’t seem very unusual . there’s something familiar , even conventional , about its take on parent - teen tensions and infidelity . in a sense , however , it’s the film’s sticking to convention that makes it sweetly subversive : its portrait of a lesbian two - mum household in californian suburbia demonstrates how any variety of family can fracture and unite along much the same lines . also , who wouldn’t want annette bening and julianne moore as their mums ? it’s a ‘love is love’ film made before the catchphrase took off , and a lot less mushy than that makes it sound . gl
the crown film unit was wound up in 1951 , but meanwhile the national film finance corporation had set up group 3 , under chairman michael balcon ( of ealing comedies fame ) , with a brief to encourage new british talent . they moved into beaconsfield in 1953 and out again in 1955 when it was decided that a studio base was unjustifiable .
portrays turing who must face off with the british military to get resources necessary to solve the german enigma code while simultaneously hiding a secret about his personal life from the authorities . persecuted rather than lauded , turing’s story is a triumph of intellect and an all too familiar tale of intolerance .
katz , ephraim . the film encyclopedia . 4th ed . new york : harperresource , 2001 .
freeman was signed on for the lead role in the epic high fantasy adventure film and triology ‘the hobbit’ in 2012 . his stellar performance as bilbo baggins in the film was critically applauded worldwide .
strangers in paradise was largely slice of life , but had a rather incongruous thriller subplot involving a conspiracy to take over the government .
oh rhonda ( hey arnold ) like the canon series it focus on the day to day life ' s of 4th - graders .
julius jr , fantastic elements notwithstanding , is a slice of life show whose main conflict stems from disputes between the group of friends .
this ken loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion . proud , though poor , bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful ( and costly ) brand - new dress for her . . . see full summary »
harmonium a prizewinner at cannes , koji fukada’s film captures the ripple effects on one family after the father ( kanji furutachi ) invites an acquaintance ( tadanobu asano ) , a recent ex - convict , to work with him in the garage next to his home .
perron , who has written her family ' s story in three self - published books , says she is never surprised when people don ' t believe their tale .
willy wonka and the chocolate factory , 1971 . ‘it was only since the fantasy films came of age that a lot of short people gave up lucrative day jobs to be in the movies . ’ photograph : allstar / warner bros .
in 1981 , she started appearing in the tv series ‘the flame trees of thika’ , playing the lead role . over the years , she appeared in several tv programs and shows . she played a supporting role in the 1988 british film ‘appointment with death’ .
the amazing world of gumball in its first season originally focused on the day - to - day life of a family in a surreal , everything talks world . season 2 onwards pretty much went bonkers , moving it away from this . ( it has episodes that still qualify as this , however . )
wings is a quiet little character study about a middle - aged russian woman who lived an exciting life as a world war ii fighter pilot in her youth , but is now suffering a mid - life crisis , being stuck in a dull career as a school principal .
1937 . musical . directed by redd davis . starring evelyn dall , claude dampier & lu ann meredith . top british radio stars perform in this musical revue .
he narrated the story of ‘tubby hayes : a man in a hurry’ in the documentary film , and ended up playing the marvel comic character everett k . ross in the 2016 film ‘captain america : civil war’ . he will play the character of everett even in the 2018 superhero film ‘black panther’ .
the opening credits for ken loach ' s ' family life ' are accompanied by a montage of still shots of an industrial working class british town to establish the setting and backdrop of the narrative . during this montage we get an image of a straight line of houses in the neighbourhood . i think from a certain angle , that image is expressive of the struggles that the protagonist janice goes through in the film . the houses stacking up one after the other in a rigid line is thematically similar to the what janice ' s parents expect her to do , live her life in a specific and pre - ordained way within inflexible parameters and become the person that they want her to be instead of allowing herself…
swedish indie comic writer coco moodysson ' s autobiographic comic book coco platina titan total : several slices of teenage and early - 20s life .
word party , fantastic robots notwithstanding , is also slice of life and whose conflicts stem from the character not knowing the word to something .
following two sell - out screenings at the london film festival , ’71 will be released in cinemas across the uk on friday 10 october . it’s a tense thriller in which the viewer experiences the inferno of bomb - torn belfast in 1971 , as a young british squaddie ( jack o’connell ) gets caught behind enemy lines after being separated from his unit and must escape the provisional militia while determining which loyalist allies he can trust . it is screening as part of the first feature competition strand at the festival .
douglas fetherling , ed . , documents in canadian film ( toronto : broadview press , 1988 ) .
wyndham wise , ed . , take one ' s essential guide to canadian film ( 2001 ) .
friends , a slice of life in new york , as lived by a group of friends who became as tight as a family . the first couple of seasons were closer to this , before it became denser and wackier in the third season . by the fifth , it had evolved into a more straightforward sitcom .
compiling any film related list is never an exact science and no doubt to some we’ve left out some real stonkers ! but as always it’s all about opinions and we’d love to hear yours . if you want to tell us your best british drama films email us at
other than the disney films , she also appeared in ' whistle down the wind ' ( 1961 ) and ' the truth about spring ' ( 1965 ) . in 1966 , she played a main role in the comedy film ‘the trouble with angels’ . she also earned acclaim for her role in the comedy film ‘the family way’ , in which he starred along with her father .
family life marks ken loach ' s only cinematic collaboration with david mercer , who also wrote morgan - a suitable case for treatment ( 1966 ) for karel reisz and providence ( 1977 ) for alain resnais . mercer took a fairly jaundiced view of the family , which he regarded as a breeding - ground for oppression , frustration and breakdown . in this , his views coincided with those of the scots psychiatrist rd laing , whose ideas were highly influential in the 1960s . laing suggested that what society called ' mental dysfunction ' or ' madness ' was often the sole rational response to intolerable social pressures - inflicted , as often as not , by the family structure .
if the holidays are wrapping up and the cold , dark winter is truly setting in , it can mean only one thing . it’s awards season ! for the uk film industry , the greatest accolade that can be bestowed is from the british academy of film and television arts , bafta for short , which also happens to the name of the statuette presented to the winners .
mills played dual roles in the 1961 film ‘the parent trap’ . directed by david swift , the film also included actors brian keith , maureen o’hara and joanna barnes and charlie ruggles . the story focused on twins who were trying to get their parents back together again . the film was nominated for two oscars .
r . h . barlow ' s the night ocean is a slice - of - life story set in hp lovecraft ' s uncaring cosmos .
all of them follow the slice of life format almost to a t ( and may make use of gratuitous amounts of imagination sequence scenes ) .
glimpses : a ww2 propaganda film made by us army . released as part of the 7th war loan in may 1945 . this film tracks war activities around the globe as big ben strikes midnight in london .
lee & apos ; s life has been depicted in the 1993 film dragon : the bruce lee story , based on the 1975 linda lee memoir bruce lee : the man only i knew , and the 2009 documentary how bruce lee changed the world . and in the summer of 2013 , the hong kong heritage museum opened the exhibition
bruce lee : kung fu . art . life .
1958 . sci - fi . a british laboratory studying magnetic fields is warned by a cosmic visitor of the dangers in their experiments . starring forrest tucker and martin benson .
beautiful footage of porthleven , cornwall june 1950 . a parade in the high street , a family trip to a small local beach , a boat trip and frolics on the shore .
ken loach’s film remake of his earlier tv drama in two minds explores the treatment of a teenager’s schizophrenia .
unfortunately , there are no subtitles included with this film , which is a great shame in my opinion .
brittany farrell ( with megaphone ) in “whose streets ? ” the film is due out aug . 11 .
she played the lead role in the 1961 film ‘whistle down the wind’ , which can be regarded as another one of her important works . directed by bryan forbes , the film is based on a novel of the same name which was written by mills’ mother mary hayley bell . the film received positive reviews from critics .
as an editor on horace ové’s classic concert documentary reggae ( 1971 ) , and the director of bbc’s linton kwesi johnson documentary dread beat an’ blood ( 1978 ) , franco rosso was an apt choice to helm the first major british feature film to take reggae music as its central theme . set predominantly in south london’s black community , babylon is a gritty , episodic study of the external and internal pressures that compel frustrated car mechanic and aspiring reggae artist blue ( aswad guitarist - singer brinsley forde ) into committing an act of catastrophic violence .
when the quota law was renewed by the british government in 1938 , it was amended to remove the inclusion of commonwealth films , mainly due to the manner in which canada had allowed the law to be subverted . there were attempts in ontario , québec and alberta to introduce provincial quotas for british films , but none of these bills became law .
from 1966 to 1971 , he was president of the screen actors ' guild , following in the footsteps of ronald reagan . he opposed the vietnam war , but went out to entertain the gis there . he thought that richard nixon was a disaster for america .
1971 saw a revival in the studios ' fortunes , when the nfts purchased the freehold from kings college with a grant from the rank organisation , making it the only uk film school with its own , purpose - built , film and tv studios and facilities . the studios set up by george clark productions have grown over the past eighty - five years both in scale and sophistication . today , beaconsfield studios comprises film and television stages , animation and production design studios , edit suites , sound post - production facilities , a music recording studio and a dubbing theatre , all furnished with new generation digital equipment equivalent to that used at the highest level in today ' s film and television industry .
dee rees ' s brooklyn - set 2011 feature is the story of butch african - american lesbian teenager alike ( adepero oduye ) as she tries to deal with feelings that increasingly put her at odds with her family ( check out her mother ' s aghast response to things like alike ' s preference for boys ' underwear ) . the influence of religion in the family ' s life is also crucial – though that nice new girl at church doesn ' t exactly turn out to be the straight - and - narrow influence mom had in mind . expanded from a short film with the help of executive producer spike lee . bw
while hibbin and o ' brien were able to provide the stable working relationships that loach lacked following the break - up of his partnership with garnett , loach ' s capacity to continue making films on a regular basis also depended upon finding a ' solution ' to the problem of raising finance that had beset his career since family life .
beginning in the early 1970s , regional film cooperatives — such as the toronto filmmakers co - op ( 1971–79 ) , the atlantic filmmakers cooperative in halifax ( 1974– ) and the winnipeg film group ( 1974– ) — began to train young filmmakers who remained committed to the concept of a cultural cinema . from the early 1980s to the late 1990s , a generation of talented independent filmmakers began to emerge , further aided by the introduction in the mid - 1980s of provincial funding agencies .
1959 . comedy . directed by john gilling . stars anthony newley , william bendix & anne aubrey . newley is a pop singer called up to serve in the british army .
1951 . crime drama . directed by max nosseck and starring lawrence tierney , allene roberts and marjorie riordan . career criminal vincent lubeck betrays his family ' s trust . ( subtitles available )
1947 . comedy . a grandad ( frank randle ) recounts to his granddaughter his life as a music hall odd job man . directed by john baxter .
later issues of zot ! , titled
the earth stories
did this , focusing on just one minor character and showing a sample of their life .
1954 . comedy . in this british classic the pickwick club send a group to find interesting things around england . stars james hayter , nigel patrick , kathleen harrison & harry fowler .
when the robertson family were picked up after 38 days on board their nine foot long fibreglass boat , the ednamair , more than 200 miles from the galapagos islands , they made global headlines .
subverted in pg wodehouse short story a slice of life . the narrator tells a story about his brother ' s experiences ( an adventure including a damsel in distress , a dastardly whiplash , and a dash of mad science ) to show that such tropes occur a lot more commonly in daily life than people think .
additional proof ( as if any were needed ) that ken loach can turn his camera to pretty much any social issue or historical milieu and nail it with intelligence and humanity . family life was way ahead of its time in its authentic depiction of one young woman ' s journey through the mental health ' care ' system in 1970 ' s britain .
richard attenborough ' s award - winning epic recounts the life and times of mahatma gandhi . in south africa , a young indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second - class . upon his return to his native india and fed up with the unjust political system , he joins the indian congress party , which encourages social change through passive resistance . when his
subversive
activities land him in jail , masses of low - skilled workers strike to support his non - violent yet revolutionary position . back in india , gandhi renounces the western way of life and struggles to organize indian labor against british colonialism . a strike costs many british soldiers their lives , so the crown responds by slaughtering 1 , 500 indians . enraged , the ascetic , spiritual leader continues to preach pacifism until he has lead india out from under the tyranny of british imperialism .
a kind of loving was the film that established schlesinger as a mainstream movie director . the movie , starring alan bates , is about a man who realizes how unprepared he is for children when he marries his girlfriend because she gets pregnant . a kind of loving won the berlin film festival ' s golden bear award in 1962 . he next made 1963 ' s billy liar , a film about a man who avoids responsibility by daydreaming . his next film , darling , helped actress julie christie rise to stardom in 1965 when she won an oscar for her performance as a model who becomes disillusioned with her life .
you ' re constantly trying to create a situation in which they ' re off balance , so that their own reactions are the ones which come through . it’s a matter of finding those reactions which are genuine to them , which in the context of the film and script add up to a schizogenic family .
more than my friend ( fosters home for imaginary friends ) many of the sides stories deal with max day to day life after he was adopt by frankie .
one big happy is about the life of 6 year old ruthie . unlike in other comics , the kids in this comic mostly act and speak their age .
all 69 british drama films add up to a total of 8148 minutes or 5 days , 15 hours and 47 minutes of footage , giving an average film length of 118 minutes . the longest being lawrence of arabia at a whopping 216 minutes , leaving david lean’s 86 minute romance a real ‘brief encounter’ .


our betters is a 1933 american pre-code satirical comedy film directed by george cukor .

the screenplay by jane murfin and harry wagstaff gribble is based on the 1923 play of the same title by w. somerset maugham .

our betters

although the british upper class may be thought our betters in society , but they are certainly not our betters , and perhaps our equals , in morality .
our betters ( 1933 ) - - ( movie clip ) that ridiculous . . .
claire jullien as lady pearl grayston and julia course as elizabeth ( bessie ) saunders in our betters .
lifestyles of the rich and shameless are on display in asolo rep ' s
our betters .
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from a canadian perspective ? well , our betters certainly needs a more rigorous treatment to seem relevant here and now .
our betters by w . somerset maugham , on now in a good production at the shaw festival , mocks the quaint belief that our own age is less moral than previous ones
starry night dinner 3 : celebrating the production of ' our betters ' - starry night dinner 3 : celebrating the production of our betters was themed to the 1920 ' s , with a suggested dress code described as elegant and distinguished . | your observer
the british atmosphere in our betters was nicely handled , though the movie was too stagey–there was no effort to open it up .
in retrospect , our betters stands as a crucial , personal work in cukor’s large oeuvre , bearing resemblance to other gay - inflected movies he would make .
starry night dinner 3 : celebrating the production of our betters was themed to the 1920 ' s , with a suggested dress code described as elegant and distinguished .
our betters may be minor maugham but it still has major rewards to those lucky enough to look for them in the right way in this smartly - crafted production .
bandit : hey ! we saw them first , they ' re our problem .
“our betters” runs through april 19 , at the fsu center for the performing arts , 5555 n . tamiami trail , sarasota . call 351 - 8000 or visit urltoken for more information .
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our betters is on at the shaw festival in niagara - on - the - lake , ont . , until oct . 27 and features ben sanders as lord bleane and julia course as elizabeth ( bessie ) saunders .
the title is meant to be ironic , by the way , if you couldn ' t already guess . newsflash : these upper - class twits are not our betters ! cue keanu reeves - style
whoaaaaaa .
bird : caw… ( our feathers are a little crumpled , but we ' re all right . )
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our betters , a satirical film about a free - spirited american social climber , was the only somerset maugham work ( play or book ) that george cukor directed for the big screen , despite their wish to work together , based on lifelong friendship .
lakeith stanfield and his sorry to bother you crew reveal their most soul - crushing jobs in our freewheeling interview .
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the shaw festival is marketing w . somerset maugham ' s our betters as
perfect for lovers of downton abbey .
the 1917 play does , after all , focus on down - at - the - heels english lords who marry rich american women for their fortunes .
wade bogert - o ' brien as fleming harvey and catherine mcgregor as princess flora della cercola appear in our betters at shaw festival ' in niagara - on - the - lake , ont . the snazzy play by w . somerset maugham is on until oct . 27 .
w . somerset maugham was clearly great fun at parties . and he was clearly paying attention . the evidence being “our betters , ” the latest offering at the asolo rep . maugham’s 1923 play masterfully distills his observations of upper class england at the dawn of the roaring twenties .
opening and no honeymoon for american pearl ( constance bennett ) , presumably innocent before marrying peer george ( alan mowbray ) , quickly revealed to be a heel , anita louise the younger sister , george cukor directing the 1933 rko production of w . somerset maugham ' s our betters .
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as our betters begins , the beautiful , innocent heiress bessie ( julia course , filling out a character that could easily be flat ) has arrived in london to spend time with her sister pearl ( claire jullien ) , who sailed across the ocean years ago to marry a lord and become a lady .
american bessie ( anita louise ) with push - back for fleming ( charles starrett ) , visiting london where her sister is socialite lady pearl ( constance bennett ) , instructing minion thornton ( grant mitchell ) on maneuvers , in george cukor ' s our betters , 1933 , from the somerset maugham play .
niagara - on - the - lake , ont . —if you’re tending to be scandalized lately by the supposedly loose morals of the world in which we live , take a deep breath and plunge into the decidedly louche society of our betters , which had a snazzy opening saturday afternoon at the shaw festival .
but the story’s not the whole story . the world on stage is : britain’s lost eden of upper - crusty creature comforts and class distinction . to contemporary anglophiles , “our betters” is a golden ticket to willy wonka’s chocolate factory . they pack the opening night audience , so my spider sense tells me .
american bessie ( anita louise ) with push - back for fleming ( charles starrett ) , visiting london where her sister is socialite lady pearl ( constance bennett ) , instructing minion thornton ( grant mitchell ) on maneuvers , in george cukor ' s our betters , 1933 , from the somerset maugham play . >
our betters is an adaptation of a drawing room play by w . somerset maugham , and boy does it retain its staginess . there are some fun moments , and constance bennett as the cunning , come - hither high society minx is the mvp , but it ' s 99 % talk - sleepy viewers beware .
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—our betters is in repertory at the royal george theatre , niagara - on - the - lake , through oct . 27 , major barbara at the royal george through oct . 19 , guys and dolls at the festival theatre through oct . 12 . call 1 - 800 - 511 - 7429 or visit urltoken for details and tickets .
yes , thanks to maugham’s comedy of bad manners , you can crash their exclusive parties and laugh with them and at them . laugh you will , make no mistake . “our betters” is a very funny play . so funny , it’s easy to miss the point — especially if you’re an anglophile with a golden ticket in your chocolaty hands .
while watching our betters , a george cukor - directed adaptation of a w . somerset maugham play , i felt like i was observing an alien race from above , with many of its members acting in ways—whether heartlessly bitchy , unbelievably self - delusional or otherwise—that seemed utterly foreign to my own experience of what i ' d consider normal human behavior .
you don’t have to be an american in britain — though it would probably help — to enjoy “our betters , ” somerset maugham’s rarely seen 1917 comedy with which kathleen turner makes her second chichester festival appearance of the summer ( following the solo show “tallulah ! ” ) . a quietly cutting satire of yanks who yearn to be english , [ … ]
there’s a quaint belief , expounded in newspaper columns and letters to editors , that our own age is significantly less moral than previous ones . almost any worthwhile piece of past literature , fact or fiction , will give the lie to that , even if morality is defined , as it generally and quaintly is , as sexual morality . our betters , a sardonically titled comedy by w . somerset maugham now on view in a good production at the shaw festival , is a case in point , suggesting that in this respect the only thing we’ve lost is hypocrisy .
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boar : oink oink oink… ( certainly we are not in a good way at the moment . it ' s like you just said , the shift in our environment is to blame ) .
aiming at getting peer recognition , cukor invited king vidor to a preview of our betters . vidor was one of the most respected directors at the time , having made the crowd and hallelujah . vidor complemented cukor , but also honestly conceded that he would never tackle a subject with so “little locomotion . ” vidor felt that the picture was static , but that cukor somehow had the faculty of keeping it interesting in spite of this obstacle .
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however , our betters was written by maugham for a british audience of his time and is about his time – a very particular moment in anglo - american relations , as it happens . though the play was ready for the stage in 1915 , the foreign office caused its premiere to be delayed for years out of concern that its depiction of americans abroad would make it difficult to persuade the united states to join the allied forces as an associated power .
we’re idealists . we openly discuss our positions and defend them with clinical objectivity in the spirit of pursuing knowledge . few conversations beside the obvious “hr ! ” complaint generating ones are really ever off the table and as such we all usually end up with a viewpoint that has been challenged . having this be accomplished in an environment that supports the discussion and debate for it’s ability to help define and challenge our own internal preconceived notions means we are able to learn from each other’s experiences . it betters us as critical thinkers , and let’s face it , when you leave a conversation on theoretical physics and pop back in at developmental psychology it’s never a dull day .
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somerset maugham ' s our betters was written during the first world war , but not staged until the 1920s . in the chichester programme part of the lord chamberlain ' s file on the play is reproduced : the censors of the time evidently considered it so worrying that many readers were recruited to give their opinion . now , it ' s difficult to imagine what the fuss was about . stories such as this about title - hunting american heiresses had been the stock of drawing - room dramas for 30 years before .
wade bogert - o’brien has often struck the excessive and surface note in his comic turns , but here , as the innocent abroad , fleming , who acts as our moral compass , he displays a sincerity and vulnerability that are incredibly appealing .
written at a time of stagnant trench war ( a fact panych ' s production ignores ) , when americans actually wanted to avoid
foreign entanglements ,
our betters now seems like an awfully short - sighted allegory fuelled by sneering resentment at needing a helping hand . no surprise that it has always been better received in britain than in the united states . indeed , it ' s one of many plays about americans to be praised by british critics and greeted by skepticism by american ones , recent examples being lucy prebble ' s enron and katori hall ' s the mountaintop .
you don’t have to be an american in britain — though it would probably help — to enjoy “our betters , ” somerset maugham’s rarely seen 1917 comedy with which kathleen turner makes her second chichester festival appearance of the summer ( following the solo show “tallulah ! ” ) . a quietly cutting satire of yanks who yearn to be english , the play is no less critical of these americans’ arrogant , self - absorbed hosts . it’s a sign of maugham’s magnanimity that american earnestness carries the day ( even if it took oscar wilde to demonstrate the lasting importance of being earnest ) .
the tv series downton abbey is set in the past but written for an audience of the present , appealing to our 21st - century sensibilities . like most period pieces , it is partly about now – or , at least , how we got to now .
pearl is a pretty good role for turner , whose ever - peculiar voice suits a crowd prone to borrowed , not easily placed accents . if there’s a faintly equine quality to her strutting ( shame , too , about a wig that resembles a giant brioche ) , the actress looks more comfortable here than she did with the not dissimilar depredations of jean cocteau’s “indiscretions . ” of the rest , little sister graubart is so irritating that one wants to bundle her back home at the first opportunity , while davenport’s doting arthur possesses the consummate veteran performer’s ease to make his infrequent appearances some of “our betters’ ” best .
silly upper - class romance mess . not particularly funny . pretense , cold love for titles , kept men , betrayals . the normal stuff from the ones that are ' our betters ' . so damn false ! the lady that steals the show is not the leading lady constance bennett , but instead violet kemble cooper as ' duchess minnie ' in her first movie role making the most of her time as the stupid rich woman who is very fond of her younger playboy lover . she was so cute with him . like he was her little baby spoiling him silly . and like a kid he sure liked playing . . . . . around .
you don ' t have to be an american in britain - - - though it would probably help - - - to enjoy
our betters ,
somerset maugham ' s rarely seen 1917 comedy with which kathleen turner makes her second chichester festival appearance of the summer ( following the solo show
tallulah !
) . a quietly cutting satire of yanks who yearn to be english , the play is no less critical of these americans ' arrogant , self - absorbed hosts . it ' s a sign of maugham ' s magnanimity that american earnestness carries the day ( even if it took oscar wilde to demonstrate the lasting importance of being earnest ) .
in “‘imagine dust with a capital letter’ : interpreting the social and cultural contexts for philip pullman’s transformation of dust , ” katharine cox shows that dust deserves more than a singular reading , that it is a “complex metaphor [ . . . ] achieved through a manipulation of our historic and contemporary ideas of attitudes toward dust” ( 127 ) , used to express a pantheistic universe . cox’s essay fills a gap in the study of “social implications and cultural history of dust” ( 127 ) , and offers both history and historiography of human attitudes toward dust . pullman’s dust represents as an industrial byproduct , a cause of disease , and our mortality .
there’s little especially lasting about “our betters” beyond its status as the kind of gently piquant curiosity on which chichester thrives . ( the play runs through sept . 27 in repertory with “divorce me , darling ! , ” the sandy wilson musical sequel to “the boyfriend . ” ) bessie saunders ( sheri graubart ) is newly arrived in london from chicago in order to follow older sister pearl , now lady grayston ( played by turner ) , in swapping u . s . cash for a u . k . title . while bessie’s cousin ( and childhood sweetheart ) fleming harvey ( charles edwards ) looks on in dismay , she is duly taken up by a circuit of posh schemers , presided over by pearl with the sang - froid of a society hostess whose life , we’re told , “is a work of art . ”
elisabeth eldridge’s essay , “constructions of the child , authority and authorship : the reception of c . s . lewis and philip pullman , ” explores public constructions of pullman and lewis as authors and how these constructions affect the authority of narration . too much is going on here to be contained in a concise essay ; eldridge’s initial deconstruction of “pullman’s” construction of “lewis” is muddier than this sentence . as it is , we are given no direct indication of how this section betters our understanding of the “public construction of these notions of author and text” ( 41 ) more than would reading pullman’s un - deconstructed quotes . despite these and other small issues , eldridge’s discussion of the relationships between these two authors , their constructed personae , and the power they exert over groups of potential readers is attention - worthy . steven barfield makes a good case in his essay , “‘dark materials to create more worlds’ : considering
medicine is about compassion for others , caring , and understanding but oftentimes that compassion can feel somewhat forced . whether it’s the receptionist that is forcing the kindness out because she’s having a bad day or it’s the clinician that is obviously more interested in their 3pm meeting over the patient in front of them . at castle we pride ourselves on being industry disruptors so instead of the canned photo snapshots and obviously copy and pasted inspirational quotes i tried to think of a more unique way to share what our lives outside of the office look like . it ' s easier to talk to the team on the other end of the line when an individual can identify the other person , which helps us provide a more compassionate and caring environment to all clients . besides conversations based solely upon the delicious properties of bacon i notice the top conversations within our senior staff communication chain tend to center around the outdoors . the staff are all avid outdoorsmen and women with daily conversations ranging from climbing and fishing to hiking and horsemanship . the team collectively loves to spend time out of reception when we can . our families rarely get uninterrupted time with the senior staff with the coordination effort required among the team so when we have the chance to cut away from problems we embrace it wholeheartedly .
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as a satire of rich americans who buy their way into european society , the film version ( 1933 ) saved its hardest punches for the continental set . where the movie is concerned , the title appears to ironically indicate that , although the british upper crust may have superior manners , they are hardly
better
than americans in matters of morality . constance bennett stars as an american heiress who discovers that her titled british husband has married her only for her money . to maintain her family ? s newfound status and social connections , she attempts to maneuver her sister ( anita louise ) into another titled marriage , only to find that the sexual liaisons of the rich and royal present considerable stumbling blocks .
, had met
willie
maugham at that time . ten years later , after the two had established a close friendship , cukor was assigned by rko to direct the screen version of maugham ' s play . cukor had followed his friend , producer david o . selznick , to rko , as he would later to mgm when selznick went to that studio at the invitation of his father - in - law , louis b . mayer .
despite their friendship , selznick demanded that cukor stick to his ideas of economy and efficiency . after 14 days of work on
, the director received one of selznick ' s infamous memos , advising him that he was four days behind schedule because he had shot 44 . 6 minutes rather than the optimal 46 . 4 minutes . selznick insisted upon an average of 3 . 2 minutes of usable film per day .
, selznick engaged elsa maxwell , the former cabaret entertainer who had become a gossip columnist and professional party - giver , to advise on the film ? s costumes and general tone . maugham biographer bryan connon wrote that maxwell
claimed to be a dear friend of willie , but he regarded her as unutterably vulgar , though he thought of her as a useful bridge player .
maxwell could hardly have endeared herself to maugham and cukor , both homosexual , with her stated view that she
loathed
most gay men even though she often admired their literary and artistic accomplishments . in her autobiography ,
, she took three pages to explain her views , declaring that there should be one rule for homosexuals who were
rich in mind
and social ostracism for all others .
includes charles starrett , later to gain fame as
the durango kid
in b - westerns and serials .
screenplay : harry wagstaff gribble , jane murfin , from w . somerset maugham ? s play
cast : constance bennett ( lady pearl saunders grayston ) , violet kemble - cooper ( duchess minnie ) , phoebe foster ( princess flora ) , charles starrett ( fleming harvey ) , grant mitchell ( thornton clay ) , anita louise ( elizabeth
bessie
saunders ) , gilbert roland ( pepi d ' costa ) .
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actress judy carroll , from the gas - house district has been trained , educated and developed so well by her manager , that not even the publicity - seeking world of the theater has guessed her . . . see full summary »
the career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken hollywood producer .
tarnished lady is a 1931 pre - code american drama film directed by george cukor . the screenplay by donald ogden stewart is based on his short story , a story of a new york lady .
a man , hilary fairfield returns home after fifteen years in a mental asylum . however , he finds things are not the way they were when he left .
a south american plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm . the passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by . . . see full summary »
julie cavendish comes from a family of great broadway actors . her mother fanny staunchly continues acting . her boisterous brother tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in hollywood . her . . . see full summary »
two gold diggers prey on old rich men , but one of them falls in love with a young , rich man .
in alexandria , in 1938 , darley , a young british schoolmaster and poet , makes friends through pursewarden , the british consular officer , with justine , the beautiful and mysterious wife of a . . . see full summary »
an immigrant nevada rancher brings a woman from italy to be his second wife but when he neglects her , she becomes involved with his trusted assistant . nominated for 3 academy awards including best actor .
the owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees .
based on the best - selling novel by irving wallace that was inspired by the kinsey report on the sexual mores of suburban women , the film follows the personal ( read sexual ) lives of four . . . see full summary »
american heiress pearl saunders marries lord george grayston but later sees him embracing his lover on their wedding day . she has his title and he has her money ; thereafter they are rarely seen together . pearl is accepted by the british aristocracy and is presented at court , but creates a scandal by wearing black . she encourages her younger sister , bessie , who idolizes her , to respond to the attentions of lord harry bleane despite bessie preferring american fleming harvey . pearl gives a weekend party at the grayston estate inviting close friends , including her lover , arthur fenwick ; her friend , duchess minnie and minnie ' s gigolo companion , pepi d ' costa ; as well as bessie , lord bleane and harvey . pepi , who had been meeting pearl on the sly , discretely suggests a rendezvous with her in the new teahouse on the property . both make some pretext to leave but are seen by minnie entering the teahouse . vindictive minnie pretends to have left her purse in the teahouse and sends bessie to fetch . . .
the £1 , 000 per year
settlement
given to pepi would equate to $ 4 , 237 at the time or over $ 80 , 000 per year in 2017 .
when pepi and minnie meet the day after his
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, in one shot he ' s lighting a cigarette and standing to the left of a table between himself and minnie . in the next closer shot , still lighting the cigarette , he ' s now standing to the right of the table and next to minnie . furthermore , the lighter suddenly changes from pepi ' s left hand to his right .
: you ' re my guiding star . my ideal ! i don ' t know what i ' d do if you failed me . i don ' t think i could live if i ever found you weren ' t what i think you are .
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the subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures .
indeed , maugham ' s play is , at best , ambivalent toward americans – and implies that they should stay the heck away from europe for everyone ' s sake .
the plan is for bessie to follow suit and marry the kind , but bland lord bleane ( a sympathetically shy ben sanders ) , so she has broken off her engagement with a conventional american named fleming harvey ( a yearning wade bogert - o ' brien ) . maugham ' s script makes it clear that turning her back on a marriage devised at the age of 16 is an immoral mistake – and director morris panych ' s production of the play does not question this dubious dramatic position .
sister pearl , you see , has become a monster by ambitiously clawing her way to the top of london society . she has surrounded herself with a number of expats who , like her , also have conspicuously absent aristocratic husbands .
the duchesse de surennes ( laurie paton ) spends most of her time making a fool of herself with a young gigolo named tony ( charlie gallant ) . then there ' s the sympathetic princess della cercola ( catherine mcgregor ) , separated from an italian noble , and the galumphing , gay thornton clay ( neil barclay ) , who claims he is often mistaken for a native englishman even as he evinces a strong , virginian accent .
the play ' s plot follows this cartoonish crew from a party at pearl ' s white london flat to one at her black country house . ( ken macdonald ' s set , like panych ' s direction , is pretty but shadeless ; there are even two giant , indoor gargoyles unsubtly surveying the proceedings . )
pearl goes too far with her devil - may - care attitude this time , however , angering her friends and her lascivious sugar daddy , arthur fenwick , who is played for laughs that never come by a one - dimensional lorne kennedy . will she be able to right these relationships before they all return to london and her shame spreads ?
it ' s hard to really care in this tension - free production . panych ' s approach doesn ' t convince that there is either enduring comedic or dramatic value in maugham ' s moralistic tale . paton ' s duchesse is ridiculous even in the moments when there is promising pathos to mine , while jullien plays pearl as a woman with no redemptive qualities whatsoever . the entertainment factor is minimal – though the dresses , designed by charlotte dean , are gorgeous .
in a mildly misogynist way , maugham depicts these women who marry for titles as deplorable while painting the british male fortune - hunters as pleasant chaps . he also engages in plenty of what is called today slut - shaming .
maugham ' s message seems to be that everyone really ought to marry members of their own class and nationality , while his attitude toward the yanks vacillates unsophisticatedly between a distinct disgust for their lack of class and a romanticization of their apparently simple , industrious ways .
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with : cast : kathleen turner ( lady grayston ) , rula lenska ( duchesse de surennes ) , barbara jefford ( principessa della cercola ) , stephen billington ( anthony paxton ) , nicholas caunter ( lord bleane ) , sheri graubart ( bessie saunders ) , nigel davenport ( arthur fenwick ) , charles edwards ( fleming harvey ) , william hootkins ( thornton clay ) , paul stewart , christian malcolm , stanley page .
pearl isn’t the only american reinventing herself . her romantic rival is the even more grandly titled duchesse de surennes ( rula lenska ) , whose frightfully callow 25 - year - old english paramour anthony paxton ( stephen billington ) pearl has the effrontery to seduce in the teahouse . watching from the sidelines are two other yanks , the principessa della cercola ( barbara jefford ) and thornton clay ( william hootkins ) , the latter a virginian embodiment of america’s burgeoning leisured class . among britons paying courtship are bessie’s intended , lord bleane ( nicholas caunter ) , and pearl’s aging benefactor , arthur fenwick ( nigel davenport ) , a so - called “sensualist” who may strike contemporary observers as too patronizing — he calls pearl “girlie” — for comfort .
as is the way of three - act plays of the period , the first two generally mark time : there’s not a lot of drama in whether fleming will learn to forsake “gee” in favor of the preferred “by jove . ” director michael rudman — himself an american long residing in england — could have done more to anticipate the snap that the play goes on to achieve . the bold ( if offstage ) second - act denouement notwithstanding , the play comes into its own in the final stretch , as maugham lays bare a house full of societal malcontents .
the double irony of the title turns out to have little to do with the triumph of american sincerity over the snobbery worshipped by the same idolaters ; instead , maugham was implying in the early decades of this century that the abiding virtues of “honor , decency and self - restraint” will win out over any social upstart’s attempts to better them .
production : chichester , england a chichester festival theater presentation of a play in three acts by w . somerset maugham . directed by michael rudman . sets and costumes , simon higlett .
crew : lighting , joe atkins ; sound , john a . leonard ; choreography , alexandra worrall . opened aug . 12 , 1997 , at the chichester festival theater . reviewed sept . 4 ; 1 , 374 seats ; 25 ( $ 40 ) top . running time : 3 hours .
with : cast : kathleen turner ( lady grayston ) , rula lenska ( duchesse de surennes ) , barbara jefford ( principessa della cercola ) , stephen billington ( anthony paxton ) , nicholas caunter ( lord bleane ) , sheri graubart ( bessie saunders ) , nigel davenport ( arthur fenwick ) , charles edwards ( fleming harvey ) , william hootkins ( thornton clay ) , paul stewart , christian malcolm , stanley page .
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if this play were a personal ad , it might read : rich american women seeking financially strapped british men with titles . a hot topic ( i . e . downton abbey ) on both sides of the pond when this delightfully cheeky play was written in 1917 , the exchange of a “milady” for a large financial sum was all the rage . bessie saunders , 22 , pretty and the heiress to several million dollars , has come from america to stay with her sister pearl , aka lady grayston . pearl’s friends include a cougar duchess , a widowed princess and two fellows both besotted with bessie . but once bessie witnesses the scandalous habits of this less - than - virtuous society , the emotional cost of social climbing is revealed in this sexy , stylish and wildly witty look at europe’s posh set and the americans who crashed the party .
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by w . somerset maugham . directed by morris panych . until oct . 27 at the royal george theatre . 1 - 800 - 511 - shaw .
yes , we live in a universe of ice - cold adultery , courtesy of ashley madison , as well as random hookups that last no longer than the text messages one sends to arrange them , but we’ve got nothing on the characters in w . somerset maugham’s saga of love - for - a - price which was first produced in 1917 .
if you were an american girl from a rich family who didn’t quite make the varsity romantic team back home , fear not . you could go to europe , where men of various ages , appearances and social positions would be willing to brush a little continental stardust on your drab colonial hide .
sure , after a while , the marriages show the strain , lovers and booze help ease the boredom and before long , you’re caught up in a battle between appearance vs . reality , only reality doesn’t have a chance in this particular tables , ladders & chairs match played in the wwe of the heart .
maugham’s play was scandalous in its day and , to be honest , the behaviour of some of its character can still raise moral hackles today , as they bid for marriages like they were paintings at sotheby’s and then rush out back to the tea house to consummate a quickie that negates it all .
morris panych is quite the perfect director for a show like this , with his own personally patented sweet - and - sour sauce that no cantonese restaurant could ever match . add some stunning sets by ken macdonald , costumes to die over from charlotte dean , and alan brodie doing his typically suave lighting and you’ve got a most persuasive package .
what’s even better is that panych has a way of getting some fresh new performances out of shaw festival stalwarts .
claire jullien , is always cast as sweet heroines for whom “vanilla” might be too strong a word . here , as the amoral pearl , she’s been liberated as a woman with flashing eyes , a ravenous smile and a way of walking towards a man that stakes her claim on him . super work .
and laurie paton , who can easily recycle the same familiar performance when left unchallenged , here turns the aging , deluded minnie into someone very sad , very funny and very noble .
catherine mcgregor is fresh and spontaneous as the wounded flora , and julia course makes us follow empathetically the twisty moral journey of the not - yet - corrupted bessie .
neil barclay gives his customary avuncularity a new twist with a southern accent , charlie gallant has a wonderfully welcome wounded machismo as the glib tony , and lorne kennedy , as always , brings layers upon layers of craft and feeling to the aging sensualist fenwick .
is it a perfect piece of theatre ? no . in the desire to get things moving , panych has his company play the first act at such a breathless clip that you soon get snow blind and risk losing interest . and the third act takes a bit too long to reach all of its resolutions , but it’s worth the wait . not to mention the wondrous second act , where everything goes to hell in a perfectly crafted hand basket and we sit back in awe .
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american heiress pearl saunders marries lord george grayston but later sees him embracing his lover on their wedding day . she has his title and he has her money ; thereafter they are rarely seen together . pearl is accepted by the british aristocracy and is presented at court , but creates a scandal by wearing black . she encourages her younger sister , bessie , who idolizes her , to respond to the attentions of lord harry bleane despite bessie preferring american fleming harvey . pearl gives a weekend party at the grayston estate inviting close friends , including her lover , arthur fenwick ; her friend , duchess minnie and minnie ' s gigolo companion , pepi d ' costa ; as well as bessie , lord bleane and harvey . pepi , who had been meeting pearl on the sly , discretely suggests a rendezvous with her in the new teahouse on the property . both make some pretext to leave but are seen by minnie entering the teahouse . vindictive minnie pretends to have left her purse in the teahouse and sends bessie to fetch it . bessie finds the door locked but peeks through the window and is shocked by what she sees . minnie , fenwick , and bessie are outraged at the lovers ' ill - advised meeting , but pearl sets out to assuage their anger .
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imagine cinderella as an expatriate american with enough cash to buy diamond slippers and prince charming as a broke brit with land and titles . now picture the two in a loveless marriage of convenience . it’s a fact - based fantasy . back in the 1920s , such marriages filled the social pages . they fill maugham’s play in various stages of formation , stability and decay .
the family plot ? bessie ( allie henkel ) an innocent american heiress / ingénue , is hanging out in london with her not - so - innocent expatriate sister , pearl ( katie cunningham ) , who more closely resembles iago’s meaner sister . pearl is no lady , but she’s a lady , having married the never - seen lord george grayston . pearl’s life is an endless party—a party paid for , not by the bankrupt lord , but by fenwick , her well - heeled american sugar daddy ( jonathan epstein ) . pearl schemes for bessie to follow her example and marry lord bleane ( matt andersen ) , a toff with the personality of a tennis racket . heeding pearl’s advice , bessie’s ended her engagement to her childhood sweetheart , a straight - arrow american named fleming ( buddy haardt ) . she’s made her choice , or has she ? second thoughts emerge . buyer’s remorse . will bessie marry fleming or the tennis racket — sorry — lord beane ?
there’s more to it — a complicated flow chart of gigolos , parasites and poseurs , money , marriages , divorces , and secondary and tertiary affairs . but bessie’s the heart of the story . will she marry a lord she doesn’t love or return to america with her childhood flame ? real love or fake nobility ? that is the question . if evelyn waugh were writing , the story it might end badly …
said anglophiles oooh and ahhh at first sight of lee savage’s sumptuous set design : a gilded hall of mirrors painted with a woman’s giant , pretty face set in cold , modernist disdain . ( a fine image for this empty , painted world . ) more joy ensues at the revelation of tracy dorman’s spot - on period costumes . when the play actually starts ( under michael donald edwards’ deft , “masterpiece theatre” style of direction ) , their joy is uncontained .
the source of all that joy feels more like a character study than a tightly plotted dramatic arc . maugham wanders — the second act feels like a series of one - liners in the mouths of his various characters . most are rotten to the core . but they’re all entertaining — and brilliantly acted by the fine repertory cast .
a lovely bunch of cocoanuts , eh ? the only thing missing is groucho .
hey , if you’d attended britain’s best parties , studied the worst people and took notes , you might come up with a cast of characters like that . maugham did . upper class yanks and brits behaving badly ! he came , he saw . and he put it on stage .
the play’s outrageous laughter tends to obscure maugham’s outrage . to spell it out ? america’s shameless nouveau riche are social climbers ; britain’s shameless aristocrats are selling england by the pound . it’s the world’s oldest profession on the one hand , the world’s oldest customer on the other . shame , shame .
that’s the moral , you see . do endeavor to restrain your laughter , if only momentarily . it might possibly set in .
it was cukor’s only attempt at bringing english high comedy to the screen , a form that was seldom successful with american actors , because they were not trained in vocal nuance .
the text should have been–but was not–performed in the noel coward tradition , a style in which the frivolous and minor detail is taken seriously by the players , but not by the viewers .
maugham’s play is darker than coward’s high comedies–a bitter expose of expatriate american women who marry british nobility for the title . in this , and other , works , maugham depicts women are ambitious , catty , and adulterous .
cukor thought that the material was too brittle for american viewers of the early 1930s , and in his direction softened maugham’s harsh attitude toward women . he achieved a varied tone that he will continue to perfect in future pictures , such as the 1939 the women .
some of the dialogue was witty and sparkling , and it moved fast , considering the over - abundance of conversation .