#Esmond Knight

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Peeping Tom (1960) Michael Powell

December 16th 2023

#peeping tom #1960 #michael powell #karlheinz böhm #anna massey #maxine audley #moira shearer #esmond knight #jack watson #shirley anne field

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#the red shoes #anton walbrook #marius goring #moira shearer #léonide massine #robert helpmann #albert bassermann #esmond knight #ludmilla tchérina #michael powell #emeric pressburger #1948

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23 febbraio … ricordiamo …

23 febbraio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2023: Grazia Migneco, attrice e doppiatrice italiana. Figlia del pittore Giuseppe Migneco, studia recitazione presso il Piccolo Teatro di Milano e inizia a recitare con importanti compagnie teatrali. Dopo circa venti anni di lontananza dalle scene nel 1978 è tornata a recitare. Molti la ricordano nei telefilm Arriva Cristina; Cristina; Cri Cri; Cristina, l’Europa siamo noi, tutti con…

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#23 febbraio #Antonio Eduardo Taranto #Arthur Stanley Jefferson #Elisa Cegani #Elisa Sandri #Esmond Knight #Esmond Penington Knight #Florence Davenport Rice #Florence Rice #Frederick Henry Kormann #Grazia Migneco #James Colby #John Keats #Katherine Helmond #Katherine Marie Helmond #Lillian Murphy #Lillian Worth #Marella Agnelli #Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto #Morti oggi #Nino Taranto #Phillip Terry #Ricordiamo #Stan Laurel

[cinemacentral666]

The Element of Crime (1984)

Movie #1,142 • Ranking Lars von Trier #4

Let it be known that during this LVT filmography viewing I made the executive decision to only ever watch full director filmographies in chronological order. That had always been my preferred method, but I thought it would be best if, from time to time, I mixed up the order for [insert reasoning here]. This is the sixth or seventh Trier flick I've consumed (depending on how you want to count his two early shorter films and both the first two seasons of his Danish TV show) and it's essentially ground zero for the man's career. It's as weird and as bold of a debut feature that I've ever seen.

I feel like it's worth mentioning that I am now starting at the beginning and only going forward, because everything about this felt like a shock having digested some of his other work, most notably: his prime "Golden Heart Trilogy" of films (1996-2000) and his most recent work, 2018's The House That Jack Built. It felt like a different director and I say that in the most positive way. Some similarities arose, naturally. The sepia tones were visually similar to The Kingdom's (though more on this later). The conversational voice-over between main character Fisher and his Cairo hypnotist felt like a direct through-line to how the character of Virgil functions in Jack. And the general "frustrated search for something largely intangible that will ultimately disappoint if not fully horrify" evoked pretty much everything I've seen by the man in some way.

But structurally and compositionally, this felt like a whole new world. In fact, in many ways, it is a complete invention of Trier's. This "Europe" consists of fictional cities and towns where it's always night and everything is drenched in liquid. Despite a few grounding allusions, there is no specific state or country, just this cold, wet dystopia broadcast under yellowy sodium lights. The sets used and built for this are fantastic, each a kind of micro-labyrinth, a small mystery onto themselves cutting against the larger noir framework of the movie's plot: a man is on the hunt for a serial killer of small girls before he strikes again. Detective Fisher (Michael Elphick) navigates this spaces in a literal daze, as the entirety of the action is presented as the memory of a man, now an expatriate in Egypt, spilling his guts to a guy with a monkey on his shoulder. This is the first of two primates to get screen-time. The second, notably of the lower order, Fisher finds in a gutter, scared to death and confused, perhaps a stand in for the audience….

I believe that guy is a loris. To start your film with monkey and end it with a loris speaks to some theme of reverse evolution. The fascist nightmares we see are a product of no less. In fact, this – coupled with the elements of his earlier student work and up through his unfortunate "I'm a Nazi" comments – provide much of the framework for understanding Trier's motives on a larger scale. I do believe it goes beyond simple provocation and is worth explorin. I think he's trying to make sense of a world still drying out from the tsunami that was WWII. But I'll put a pin in it that for now before I get to watch the rest of his films.

The Element of Crime is not a movie made for easily digestible 'understanding' or textbook mystery reveals. Even when you get the gist/uncover the trick, he throws a mysterious postscript that shrouds things further. I'm still trying to make sense of these manic bald men…

LVT created a world here. His stellar framing, innovative shots, and glorious use of light all cut against the frantic, obtuse and occasionally obscene script in such a delightful way. Sure, maybe it's all an amalgamation of influence (certainly Andrei Tarkovsky and Lynch's Eraserhead among others) but it's still wholly more than the sum of its parts.

I took a weird route to get to this beginning. In a way, I'm glad I did, but I'm even more excited to keep going forward.

SCORE: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I’ll be counting down all of Lars Von Trier’s movies right here at @cinemacentral666 every Thursday through September 2023

#1984 #lars von trier director #crime #10 #🇩🇰 #michael elphick #esmond knight #meme lai #jerold wells

[cultfaction]

A for Andromeda (1961)

A for Andromeda is a British science fiction television series that was first aired in 1961. The show was produced by the BBC and consisted of seven episodes. It stared Esmond Knight as Professor Ernst Reinhart who would open each episode with an interview where he discussed the goings on of the series. The show’s plot centers around a group of scientists who receive a mysterious signal from the…

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#A for Andromeda #Donald Stewart #Esmond Knight #Geoffrey Lewis #John Hollis #Julie Christie #Mary Morris #Noel Johnson #Patricia Kneale #Peter Halliday #Peter Henchie

[randomrichards]

THE ELEMENT OF CRIME:

Yellow tinged Europe

Detective use hypnosis

To find a killer

#the element of crime #random richards #poem #haiku #poetry #haiku poem #haiku poetry #haiku form #poetic #lars von trier #Michael elphick #Esmond knight #me me lai #jerold wells #Niels vorsel #William quarshie #Stephen Wakelam #criterion collection #criterion channel #Youtube

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Richard Gale, Jane Asher, Esmond Knight, David Weston in The Winter's Tale, 1966🌺🌺🌺

Via @lovely_janeasher on Instagram🌺

#60s icons #girlsofthesixties #jane asher #actress #beatles girls #1966

[midnight-and-his-melodiverse]

time for the first (of many!) team fate rambles because hooh boy they've been taking up my brainspace for the last couple months and I love them so much so first, a quick rundown of the party we're lookin' at! Farrah - a shy human knight, it sucks for her when she has to talk to people, but somehow, on the opposite hand she gains all the confidence when leading her teammates into battle. Her father, Darryon Wynvale, has recently been enlisted into the Rosehaven militia to help defend Rivershield, but this has left her feeling a little lonely. For consolation, she usually heads to the quiet and serene Dreamland Inn to either catch a night's rest slumbering in a home away from home, so to speak, or to talk out her feelings with Katia, the inn's owner. One day, after looking at her pet dog that sits atop the counter, she decides that when she turns 18 (she's 14 as of the recent Team Fate album Fablevale Forest) that she'll get a dog or cat of her own. Perhaps to keep her company, or to just satisfy her childhood want for a pet. Alluin - a headstrong elven ranger. He's cocky and arrogant as all hell now, but back when he was a budding monster hunter, training with both Farrah AND Esmond in the same school, albeit in different divisions of Rivershield's Knight Academy, he was not so confident in his skills to kill monsters. In fact, due to his hesitation, he was forced to miss out on the very prominent Graduation Monster Hunt celebration because of his fears and doubts of his abilities. However, in spite of this... one late night he snuck out to the deepest part of Wyvern Winterlands (back before there was the single benevolent wyvern resting in it's depths) and steeling his nerves, managed to slay an Avalan Aberration, the strongest of it's kind dwelling within those lands. It was then he went around flaunting his newfound monster hunting abilities to everyone. Some found the skills awe-inspiring, others, like unfortunately Team Fate, found it annoying that he kept bringing it up day after day. Terrel - a mindful human healer / cleric. All that Terrel is willing to share, is that from the day he turned ten, he wanted to assist people's wounds, out of the goodness of his heart.

Esmond - an anxious elven mage. Poor Esmond, has been afraid of the world at large for years. As Farrah acts as his sort of guardian, he's found comfort in playing around with certain types of magic which come from his comfort object, a sapphire staff. Much to Farrah's terror, however, Esmond has recently discovered that his sapphire staff is so immensely powerful that it can pull and store magic from the nearest location that Esmond points it towards. However, since it's navigation isn't so great, one night when pointing the wand up to the sky to capture the magic of the stars... it aimed right at Goblin Grove's dungeon entrance, and bottled all the dark magic from it's enemies inside the staff.

#the fateverse rambles #midnight's rambles #character: farrah #character: alluin #character: terrel #character: esmond

[byneddiedingo]

Robert Helpmann and Moira Shearer in The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948) Cast: Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine, Ludmilla Tchérina, Esmond Knight, Albert Bassermann, Austin Trevor, Irene Browne. Screenplay: Emeric Pressburger, Keith Winter, Michael Powell, based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen. Cinematography: Jack Cardiff. Production design: Hein Heckroth. Film editing: Reginald Mills. Music: Brian Easdale. Costume design: Hein Heckroth. In its digital restoration, The Red Shoes almost certainly looks better than it ever did even in the most optimal theatrical showing, its colors brighter and sharper, its darks deeper and more detailed. But is that necessarily a good thing? I'm not like one of those audiophiles who insist that old vinyl LPs sound better than CDs or any digital audio process -- I like being able to hear things without surface pops and skips. But I do think that in the case of a film like The Red Shoes, where suspension of disbelief is essential, something has been lost. The great red snood of Moira Shearer's hair is revealed to be a thing of individual strands that might have benefited from a quick brushing before her closeups. The special-effects moments, like Vicky's (Shearer) leap into the red shoes or Boleslawsky's (Robert Helpmann) transformation into the newspaper man, are more glaringly just rudimentary jump cuts. There's a loss of glamour and magic that hasn't been compensated for, even though we can now see Jack Cardiff's photography of Hein Heckroth's designs with greater clarity. I will also admit that I have never been in the front ranks of the fans of The Red Shoes. While I admire the storytelling ability of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, I have to question the moral of the story, which seems to be that a woman can't have both a great career and a successful private life, or in a larger sense, that art is impossible without a loss of self. Granted, the story comes from the realm of fairytale, which is never without an element of cruelty, but is Vicky's suicide a necessary follow-through, or just a submission on the part of the screenwriters to the demands of some kind of closure, given that they've never made the character more than a stereotype: the woman torn between the demands of two men? Ravishing to the eye, The Red Shoes doesn't satisfy the mind or the heart.

#The Red Shoes #Michael Powell #Emeric Pressburger #Robert Helpmann #Moira Shearer

[protestantfaceofanglicanism]

That’s Esmond Knight on the left, incidentally, with Glynis Johns, in the transformative British movie from 1944 “The Halfway House”.

[wtf-amiru]

i'm emptying the queue today and probably not going much further in 6.2 for a while. My life has been....stressful this summer to say the least and i am not about to go into a video game to push myself to grind for gear that never drops so I can keep incrementally taking in story when my brain just wants a break and an easier work/reward balance. It'll probably get done in spurts, chunks at a time as I come around in my stress cycle. Sometimes the brain just wants to run off and do silly little things like forcing Esmond to level up dark knight while I learn sage in potd with me lmao (I cleared a save slot for you, you're finishing this with me now) and i'll get back to msq when I want to. `

#maple rambles #i'm also just not ready to be done spending time with my new fav wife lmao #look #something about true neutral characters man #plus she's hot #also her name is actually steve don't tell anyone #also what's the deal with scouting drops #went through troia and got nothing twice in a row? #like not just didn't get scouting gear #i walked away with nothing because of repeats #that's just #demoralizing lmao #i like the look of that gear a lot sure wish i could get any of it #at least troia's a fun dungeon

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The Red Shoes (1948) Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

December 11th 2022

#the red shoes #1948 #michael powell #emeric pressburger #moira shearer #anton walbrook #adolf wohlbruck #marius goring #robert helpmann #albert bassermann #leonide massine #esmond knight #eric berry #ludmilla tcherina #powell and pressburger #the archers

[juliopison]

CINE (1940-1949) Las zapatillas rojas (1948) Título original: The Red Shoes Reino Unido Dirección: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Idioma: Inglés con subtítulos en Español

Atención: Solo para ver en PC o Notebook Para ver el Film pulse el Link: https://artecafejcp.wixsite.com/escenario-cafejcp/post/las-zapatillas-rojas-1948

Reporte: Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Anton Walbrook, Léonide Massine, Robert Helpmann, Albert Bassermann, Ludmilla, Esmond Knight

Género: Drama. Romance | Ballet. Melodrama

Sinopsis: Victoria Page (Moira Shearer) es una joven bailarina aficionada que, en la fiesta de estreno de un ballet de la compañía Lermontov, dirigida por el implacable Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), es introducida por su influyente tía y obtiene una oportunidad para demostrar su valía, empezando por los teatros más modestos de Londres. Al mismo tiempo Julian Craster (Marius Goring) es un joven estudiante de composición, a quien su profesor ha robado su trabajo, haciéndolo pasar como original para los ballets de Lermontov. Se presentará ante éste y encontrará también la oportunidad para demostrar su valía. En un momento dado, el destino de ambos jóvenes confluyen. A Craster se le encomienda la composición de la música de un nuevo ballet basado en el cuento "Las zapatillas rojas", de Hans Christian Andersen. A Page, la retirada de la anterior prima ballerina por matrimonio, le ofrece la oportunidad de bailar el papel principal en el nuevo ballet. También será la ocasión para que ambos jóvenes se encuentren, se conozcan y se enamoren. Y para que se pongan los cimientos para el drama que evolucionará en paralelo al cuento de Andersen.

Críticas: "Comprende de forma visual y emocional toda la elegancia, el ritmo y el poder del ballet" -Bosley Crowther: The New York Times

"La película tiene una belleza voluptuosa y una narración apasionada. No la ves, te bañas en ella". -Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com

"Una mirada más allá de su vistosa superficie revela una sensibilidad oscura y compleja y esa misma superficie (…) refleja una originalidad cinematográfica fantástica" -Dave Kehr: Chicago Reader

Posición en rankings FA: 24 Mejores películas británicas 56 Mejores películas de los años 40 67 Mejores películas románticas de la historia del cine

Premios: 1948: 2 premios Oscar: mejor música y dir. artística (color). 5 nominaciones 1948: Globo de Oro: Mejor banda sonora 1948: Premios BAFTA: Nominada a mejor film británico 1948: Festival de Venecia: Nominada al León de Oro 1948: Asociación de Críticos Norteamericanos (NBR): Nominada a Mejores películas

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#cine #film #Laszapatillasrojas #cafemientrastanto #jcp

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2019: Marella Agnelli, Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto, collezionista d’arte, designer e fotografa italiana. Era la moglie di Gianni Agnelli.(n. 1927) 2019: Katherine Helmond, Katherine Marie Helmond, attrice e comica statunitense, è famosa per aver interpretato Jessica Tate nella sitcom statunitense Bolle di sapone.  (n. 1929) 2018: James Colby, James Leo Colby, attore statunitense.   Le cause…

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#23 febbraio #Antonio Eduardo Taranto #Arthur Stanley Jefferson #Elisa Cegani #Elisa Sandri #Esmond Knight #Esmond Penington Knight #Florence Davenport Rice #Florence Rice #Frederick Henry Kormann #James Colby #John Keats #Katherine Helmond #Katherine Marie Helmond #Lillian Murphy #Lillian Worth #Marella Agnelli #Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto #Morti oggi #Nino Taranto #Phillip Terry #Ricordiamo #Stan Laurel

[blaiddydbrokeit]

Actually, why don't I start Fredrike posting right now.

Fredrike Esmond Fraldarius is Rodrigue's nephew and the cousin of Glenn and Felix. He has a minor crest of Fraldarius.

Fredrike and Glenn were once very close, and both served as squires at the same time. But when Glenn was knighted for his prodigious abilities and inducted into the royal guard, Fredrike was taking the longer route - he wanted to be a holy knight (like his uncle), which required far more progression before he could officially be knighted. He subsequently continued his service in the Itha Knights, due to their edging expertise over the royal knights in the dark and holy knight classes.

Glenn was only a year older than Fredrike, and was definitely the cause of Fredrike's decidedly foul language and cheeky attitude, as well as their common verbal spars with the Gautier brothers. The last promise Fredrike made to Glenn was before leaving for Duscur, since it was his first expedition - if anything ever happened to him, Glenn trusted Fredrike to step in as an older brother figure for Felix. Not that either Fraldarius would ever admit it.

However, after the Tragedy, many of the knight orders under the Blaiddyd banner were reorganized when the regent moved to Fhirdiad to take office. He notices that "the white-haired son" had also mysteriously vanished, but simply assumes that Rufus has simply taken him to Fhirdiad as well.

However, he runs into Allan again in Garreg Mach in 1180 while on his exchange program for his final holy knight certification and recognizes him. With Rufus' abrupt attempt at a coup, the fact his favorite uncle was at risk and the realization that Allan would likely soon be his liege, he makes the decision to abandon his program and return home to help.

After Rufus' execution and Allan's ascension to the title of Grand Duke, he seeks to return to Garreg Mach to finish his certification, but Allan writes to the church to vouch for him. This earns him the certification, and he returns to Itha to be knighted. He visits Fraldarius to deliver the news to his father, uncle and cousin, only to discover that Felix is now the duke.

When the war begins, his father takes over administration of Fraldarius while Felix and Rodrigue deploy for war. He deploys as Allan's retainer.

There are only five people in all of Faerghus that he won't spit his foul tongue at - Matthias, Dimitri, Allan, his father and Rodrigue. Everyone else? It's free game.

He prefers the lance over the sword, and tends to slack off on his sword training often, much to Felix's annoyance. Fredrike is very much into gossip, though, and would happily sit down with Rodrigue for tea and the latest tea.

#fredrike esmond fraldarius #fe3h ocs

[mariocki]

The Saint: The Covetous Headsman (1.4, ITC, 1962)

"Inspector Quercy, how nice to see you."

"Ah, Monsieur Templar, how very nice to see you - provided you have come to France only as a tourist."

"Now what does that mean?"

"That means that there are servants of the Republic, of whom I am one, whose job is to concern themselves with crime. We do not allow private individuals to take over the duties of the police."

#the saint #the covetous headsman #leslie charteris #itc #John Roddick #Michael Truman #roger moore #barbara shelley #eugene deckers #george pastell #esmond knight #carole gray #robert cawdron #josephine brown #michael spear #andre boulay #natalie benesh #barbara roscoe #peter brace #1962 #ah what a cast! personal fave George Pastell (made up to be playing older than his actual age)‚ good old Esmond Knight and of course the #ever lovely Barbara Shelley; Simon meets Babs on the plane to Paris where she's meeting her long lost brother. she pulls out a picture to #show him and it's of stuntman and background player Peter Brace‚ so immediately this bodes not well. indeed Brace doesn't actually get any #real screen time that isn't below a sheet on a marble slab. to find the villain Simon must piece together a mystery dating back to ww2; in #the process we learn he fought with the resistance (making ST at the very least in his late 30s here‚ a little older than Moore himself). #the wartime hangover was a fairly common trope in early ITC stuff (see also eps of Interpol Calling and Ghost Squad) and tho it became less #used it still popped up in later shows like Strange Report and The Zoo Gang. Simon seems to be at peace with allowing the execution of a #wartime collaborator‚ fitting in with that darker energy i mentioned last time which is more in the spirit of the books (and which im #fairly certain gets watered down over time). Simon begins the ep being awful about a complaining lady on his plane but later he's much more #charming to an elderly landlady (deliberately shown to be at odds with the way the police talk to her). no location work in Gay Paris tho