Halls on Film
Sheldon Hall and Christopher Hall (no relation) discuss boutique blu ray releases.Occasionally they disagree. Sheldons collection is very well organised, Chris's less so.Instagram: @halls_on_filmfacebook: Halls on Film
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Episode 12: Halls on Film Episode 12 - La Tete Contre Les Murs and Oh What A Lovely War (opens the original)
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Sheldon and Chris chat about two more recent blu ray releases. La Tete Contre les Murs (1959), Directed by Georges Franju and starring Jean Pierre Mocky, Anouk Aimee and Charles Aznavour and Richard Attenborough's directorial debut Oh What a Lovely War (1969) starring many many film and theatre folk. Sheldon has watched Oh What a Lovely War many times, but not seen the original stage version, Chris has only seen the original stage version in community hall in Leominster at some point in the late
Episode 11: Halls on Film Episode 11 - Rocco and his Brothers & Iphigenia (opens the original)
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Sheldon and Chris have had a great Summer. They watched some films, thought about them and have eaten a variety of cakes. Here they discuss the UHD BFI edition of Rocco and His Brothers, directed by Luchino Visconti and the Radiance Films edition of Iphigenia directed by Michael Cacoyannis. They talk about different performance styles, a bit about camera angles and they cut out a lot, a lot, of Chris going off on several of tangents about Euripides, Homer, Aristophanes, The Iliad and The Odyssey
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