[…]tem in Iran?Norman Fisher: The working of, yes, the working for the regime.Roy Fowler: Yes, right. It wasn't the fact that the film was about women's liberation in Iranian terms?Norman Fisher: Oh no no no no. It was the fact that they were doing it for a member of the regime which is not, which was […]
[…] It wasn't the fact that the film was about women's liberation in Iranian terms? Norman Fisher: Oh no no no […]
[…] contract to Selznick because of Gone with the Wind she’d had to sign the traditional seven-year contract and although she was very reluctant to make films for him nevertheless she was contracted so I suppose David Selznick was making a vast amount of money out of it. Rains’ contract said[…]
[…] clappers and eventually Ibecame a focus puller.Alan Lawson: To whomMonty Berman: I think Billy Luff, I thinkAlan Lawson: Can you remember any of the films. They were quota quickies, weren'ttheyMonty Berman: Yes, they were, they must have been quota quickiesAlan Lawson: What was the turn roundMonty […]
[…] My mum and dad weren’t tearful we couldn't wait to get away.6:17 NS: It's not only - it's not only today's television, is it? I mean, it’s the films of the time, Alan will remember this, they we're also a bit tearful. And they were shown during the war.6:27 DMW: Yes, but today’s documen[…]
[…]ed throwing themselves on the floor and laughing they would say all the lines to get us out on time, you know, and I had a failsafe thing. I had some films five minute gun in the distance wearing the goon sheet. And one of the fishing has we all had these tweed fishing hats, or give give mine to the[…]
[…]they knew I was great, a good writer. And they thought, well, if I could write well about plays, and this, that and the other, I might write relevant films, you know. And, you know, the fact that I got this award than impressed them a lot. And so that's so I've been film critic ever since back 25 ye[…]
[…] ultimately always oversaw the ‘projectionettes’. The tensions between women’s concurrent liberation and confinement within wartime cinemas are further emphasized by […]
