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K Is for KINO | ollygruner
https://ollygruner.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/k-is-for-kino
An A-Z of Film Themes. K Is for KINO. For a little bit of left-wing London history, why not take a stroll down the Gray’s Inn Road. All along this busy Islington thoroughfare, which connects Kings Cross St Pancreas station to Holborn High Street, are traces of London’s political past. Century. In 1877, it became the first hospital to admit women students for clinical training, and the only one to consistently do so until 1947, thus investing it with its own political and historical importance. Beer, book...
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Sometimes the nobility is more like a film than a film is: F Is for Flying Saucers | ollygruner
https://ollygruner.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/sometimes-the-nobility-is-more-like-a-film-than-a-film-is-f-is-for-flying-saucers
An A-Z of Film Themes. Sometimes the nobility is more like a film than a film is: F Is for Flying Saucers. F is for Flying Saucers. Mark you, my Lords, I was told today outside those doors that an ambassador of 8 ft. 6 ins. with green feet, and webbed feet as well, had asked whether he could park his flying saucer in our car park some people have treated the whole matter as a joke. Lord Davis of Leek, House of Lords Speech, January 18, 1979). Some things money can’t buy). Like ‘truth is out there’ argume...
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J Is for Jock | ollygruner
https://ollygruner.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/j-is-for-jock
An A-Z of Film Themes. J Is for Jock. J Is for Jock. Activists for social justice keep your yogurt-nibblers out of the spotlight. Let them do the research. By all means let them write the manifestos and design the posters. But for God’s sake, leave the tough stuff to the jocks. Cue the rousing music. They’re Mustangs, Coach. They accepted the challenge.’ (. Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film. The Joe Louis Story. Film scholar Elizabeth Rawitsch sees in baseball movies like. League of their own.
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M Is for Memory | ollygruner
https://ollygruner.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/m-is-for-memory
An A-Z of Film Themes. M Is for Memory. M Is for Memory. As numerous politicians, journalists and public intellectuals have noted at one time or another: those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. So overused is this phrase, first coined by the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana, it today serves as a kind of one-size-fits-all. 1905-6), Santayana’s words now belong to any fortune-cookie aphorist with an opinion to share. When he penned these words, but I suspect he would hav...
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I Is for Irreplaceable | ollygruner
https://ollygruner.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/i-is-for-irreplaceable
An A-Z of Film Themes. I Is for Irreplaceable. I Is for Irreplaceable. The BFI’s new Film Storage Centre, Gaydon. (Courtesy of Rob Ewart). Enthusiasts. Here at the BFI, however, the defibrillator is more than just a life-saving device. Resting in the front office, next to various film preservation machines, it emanates a powerful symbolic aura. For in Gaydon they are literally and metaphorically keeping our filmic heritage alive. Was more specific: ‘ It looks like a Bond villain bunker the one from.
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L Is for Lost Weekend | ollygruner
https://ollygruner.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/l-is-for-lost-weekend
An A-Z of Film Themes. L Is for Lost Weekend. As far as these rambling blogs have gone, I’ve tried up until now to avoid focusing all energies on a single movie. But for the letter L there was only one subject that sprang to mind. The Lost Weekend. Lists for that kind of thing. It’s difficult to explain quite how compact, but at the same time, precariously balanced,. Anyway, that convoluted Argos simile was the sum total of my sitting around today trying to devise a witty opening paragraph to introduce a...
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G Is for Gettysburg | ollygruner
https://ollygruner.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/g-is-for-gettysburg
An A-Z of Film Themes. G Is for Gettysburg. G Is for Gettysburg. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address). I’m not joking when I refer to our country as the United States of Amnesia. Emanci-mother-fuckin-pator of the slaves’ (. States, for the Union. If preserving the Union meant preserving slavery in some states then, by many accounts, he would have done so. Lincoln’s speech was intended to ap...The L...
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