Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: Watching 'Where Eagles Dare' - Couverture rigide

Dyer, Geoff

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ISBN 10 : 1524747572 ISBN 13 : 9781524747572

Editeur : Pantheon Books, 2019

Synopsis

Geoff Dyer's earlier book on film, Zona, was about Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, so it was perhaps inevitable that he should next devote his unique critical and stylistic energies to Brian G. Hutton's Where Eagles Dare. A thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous.

'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' is Geoff Dyer's hilarious tribute to a film he has loved since childhood: it's a scene-by-scene analysis&;or should that be send-up?&;taking us from it's snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

UK reviews
"An entertaining, tongue-in-cheek tribute."—The Sun

"Highly entertaining, and a fine excuse to watch the movie again. . . brilliant"—The Guardian

"[Dyer] is a brilliant, intellectually sparkling critic. . . ["Broadsword Calling Danny Boy"] is a feast of snark throughout, but that is beacuase Dyer is a comedian to his fingertips as well as a very serious man. He would not waste humour on something he didn't care about. . . there are some superb one-liners. . . and he really lets his imagination rip on the acting. . . moreishly entertaining."—The Sunday Telegraph

"Dyer's wry humour is everywhere evident. . . 'There is never a dull moment in Where Eagles Dare,' he writes, and nor is tehre in this book."—The Sunday Times

"Dyer makes for a droll guide, combining a scene-by-scene breakdown of the film's silliness with gonzo riffs on its cultural legacy. . . this is less a work of film criticism than a jeu d'esprit."—Financial Times

"Dyer is at his best when giving glimpses of his childhood and adolescence, days of toy Lugers, Action Man and Airfix. . ."—Sight & Sound

Présentation de l'éditeur

From a writer of "derelict luminosity" (David Mitchell), a scene-by-scene exploration of Where Eagles Dare, one of cinema's most cherished and popular films, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.

Geoff Dyer has loved Where Eagles Dare since childhood. It is both a thrillingly realized Alpine World War II adventure with tough, compelling acting from its two great stars, Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, and a flippant travesty, reducing the central disaster in Europe's modern history to a series of huge explosions and peopled by campy SS officers.
     As he did in Zona--which took on Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker--in Broadsword Calling Danny Boy, Dyer gives us a scene-by-scene reaction to and reading of the film. And perhaps as only he can, the author both extols and denigrates--lovingly and entertainingly no matter which way he falls--this acme of the late '60s action movie.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pantheon Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1524747572
• ISBN 13: 9781524747572
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 121
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible