Loved the line from A Canterbury Tale, to the dereliction and flattened buildings - "Well you get a better view of the Cathedral!" - a brilliant line, quintessentially British.
I did not realise (or maybe I did, but had forgotten) that the last ten minutes of Black Narcissus are silent - in fact the music was written first and then the action is choreographed to the music - the first such experiment Powell attempted; then going on to the incredible Red Shoes ballet, which Scorsese says is filmed not theatrically but from the point of view of the dancer, to be within the ballet - something Scorsese himself used on one of the fight scenes in Raging Bull, keeping us inside the fight. Also that the moment in Blimp where the camera drifts away from the duel he also used for a build up to a fight scene in Raging Bull, which is then not shown.
It was fun seeing how Scorsese would have first seen Thief of Bagdad etc, with missing frames and in jerky black and white. But mainly the film avoids trickery, letting the clips speak for themselves, though dividing the screen into squares here and there is well done.
Then this great quote from Emeric: "I always had the feeling that we were amateurs in a world of professionals. Amateurs stand so much closer to what they're doing and they are driven by enthusiasm, which is so much more forceful than what professionals are driven by."
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| Receiving the BAFTA Fellowship Awards in 1981 |
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