Category Archives: Film

Michael Powell and the National Myth

1980: Exile  Michael Powell began writing his autobiography A Life in Movies during a period of professional exile from England — in 1980, while teaching film students at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. “I love England,” he wrote:  I have … Continue reading

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The Jews in Fascist Italy

And he would shake his head, with the expression of someone who, should they wish to, could even understand such subtleties and complications, but who is just not minded to. Such tiny fine discriminations, intriguing and engaging as they might … Continue reading

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