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8 de jun. de 2024 · What’s clear is that Sammy has problems. His drinking is alluded to early on—as the landlord at the Lord Nelson pub (Sid James in one of his first roles) refuses to serve him whisky—and his strained life with Susan is quite different from the idyllic coupledom seen in many wartime films.
4 de jun. de 2024 · Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 'The Small Back Room' returns to theaters in summer 2024 with a 4K restoration. Watch the trailer here.
7 de jun. de 2024 · The guys literally under London’s noses, in small dark rooms, working on intelligence about the latest, ever more deadly weapons. It’s actually about David Farrar’s disillusioned, borderline alcoholic trying not to drink his bottle of whisky to dull the pain of his gammy leg.
9 de jun. de 2024 · The shadow of Black Narcissus hangs heavy over Powell and Pressburger’s The Small Back Room. The film reunites Kathleen Bryron and David Farrar, whose performances in Black Narcissus as the hysterical nun and uptight colonel, were so utterly mesmerising.
21 de jun. de 2024 · A24 ha publicado el tráiler de la película de terror “The Front Room”, escrita y dirigida por Max Eggers y Sam Eggers, hermanos del aclamado director Robert Eggers (“El Hombre del Norte”, “La Bruja”), y basada en el relato homónimo de la escritora Susan Hill.
14 de jun. de 2024 · Far from a retread, The Small Back Room offers a distinct approach that expands on the Archers’ previous explorations of World War II-era Britain, placing an emphasis on the London home front – on the bureaucratic politics and behind-the-scenes machinations that shaped the war effort.
18 de jun. de 2024 · An alcoholic Englishman as unexploded bomb, in Powell and Pressburger’s Blitz noir. Powell and Pressburger’s least remembered Forties film is shrouded in Blitz darkness, deepening in the warped flat where alcoholic weapons expert Sammy (David Farrar) stares at a whisky bottle as if it’s a bomb.
