Tag: Brief Encounter
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Carol.
Deeply romantic and tantalizingly erotic, Carol is the latest from film maker Todd Haynes. Here, the director brings the same period-specific aesthetics that he created in his stunning television adaptation of Mildred Pierce. Haynes is no stranger to capturing particular times and places on screen. His most prestigious film to date being Far From Heaven,…
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Always to the End of My Days.
From the moment she tilts her head in its rakish peaked beret and he dips in his clean white doctor’s hankie (laundered by his wife) to remove the famous piece of grit- You know her heart’s been filch’d as surely as if he’d streaked her lid with a drop of Puck’s juice: enough to guarantee,…
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All Aboard for Carnforth Station…
A very quick entry to express my excitement for my plans this weekend. I will be visiting Carnforth Station, the setting of my favourite film of all time, Brief Encounter. http://www.carnforthstation.co.uk/ I will write up a summary of the experience as soon as I can. Thanks for reading and let’s all keep supporting our beloved film…
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Encounters of the Briefest Kind.
So now the real/reel blogging begins… I would like to dedicate my first entry to the beautiful Brief Encounter of 1945. This is one of my favourite films and I only had the pleasure of my first screening of this film last year. It is a film of the utmost compassion and tragedy. A story…
Hannah McHaffie 