Jerry Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 I assume it is a British group -- Kneehigh -- presenting a multi media homage to the classic film and Noel Coward. I understand the staff and players present many of his songs including "Mad About the Boy" before the curtain and during intermission. Playing now in San Francisco -- Laura's homelife is depicted using two puppets for her children (sly insinuation?) Much of the staging is in the station tea room. It's all very proper and chaste and British. I loved the film and the music. They present music here but the reviewer didn't say -- oh -- I guess it's just Noel Coward's music. For emotional impact it seems they use a film of waves crashing on rocks. Wish I could see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 i can remember the film but can honestly say that i cannot remember having watched it. i have seen short excerpts many times and various posters that were used to advertise it. mind you there are a few films that i have seen part off, either missing the beginning or the end i will have to put it on my list of things to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted October 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 The memory creases in my brain must resemble swiss cheese. I often see films for a 2nd or 3rd time and see scenes that I somehow missed in the first viewing. Re: Brief Encounter. I have seen it fully at least twice. It's such a tiny plot. A housewife with 2 children standing on a train platform gets a cinder in her eye. A kindly doctor removes it with a hanky, and somehow they connect. They meet a few times, very, very chastely in the train's public tea room, and at the end he goes off to Africa to practice medicine, so that has to end their un-consumated passion. Yet, it's so perfect and memorable. From a short story by N.C. and directed by David Lean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 A romantic classic Jezz; in the days of un-consumated love and repressed passion, unlike the slappers of today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 strange as it may seem, the film was on film four yesterday. again i missed it due to having to visit hospital (not for me but for my mother who is in there at the moment). so even had i managed to catch the start i would have missed the rest of it. will have to watch out for it again and record it to dvd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 It'll be on again Sid - you can count on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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