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Charles Drazin
Jul 15, 2024
Listen to Britain: The Great Cut
The gun and the violin. This visual juxtaposition introduces a twenty-minute masterpiece of association and contrast. A wartime film...
Charles Drazin
Jul 11, 2024
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: “You stay just as you are till the floods come . . .”
When The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp had its premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square, on 10 June 1943, the title hero – or rather,...
Charles Drazin
Jul 5, 2024
A Hopeful Young Man: Lindsay Anderson after the Landslide Labour Victory of 1945
It was August 1945. Ten years later Lindsay Anderson, the principal inspiration behind the Free Cinema, would become known to the world...
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