Listen to Britain: And Other Films by Humphrey Jennings on DVD
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Actor : Various
Director: Humphrey Jennings
Genre: Drama
Year: 1940-1942
Studio: Flicker Alley
Length: 182 min
Released: March 14, 2017
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: DVD
Misc: NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Director: Humphrey Jennings
Genre: Drama
Year: 1940-1942
Studio: Flicker Alley
Length: 182 min
Released: March 14, 2017
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: DVD
Misc: NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
DESCRIPTION:
Humphrey Jennings was one of the greatest figures in the celebrated British documentary film movement, and he is most remembered for the way his work reflects the concerns and conditions of World War II-time in the United Kingdom. He is undoubtedly of great historical importance, but the ultimate justification for the present gathering of work is that Jennings was a wonderful filmmaker who made uniquely beautiful films. Contained within this one man was a seemingly impossible array of artistic abilities. He had a poets command of film language, a painters eye for evocative imagery and composition, a musicians ear for rhythm and tone and counterpoint, a Soviets sense of juxtaposition, a journalists nose for the concrete and the factual, and a compassionate mans love for the people he portrayed. It may seem paradoxical that an artist of such positively romantic parts should have labored almost exclusively in the documentary realm, with all that it implies of subordination to subject and sponsor. But Jennings particular talents emerged at a time of very particular need, and that seeming subordination to a cause is in fact the key to the continuing resonance of his work. In the incongruous coupling of the Cambridge aesthete and the British propaganda machine, both parties turned out to be anxious to compromise for the sake of the union. In these pictures, Jennings impressive aesthetic arsenal helped to expand the scope and the vocabulary of documentary. In turn, the documentary idea, especially in time of war, served to focus and direct his aesthetic impulses to public ends. The result was a short, shining, perfect marriage. FILMS INCLUDED IN COLLECTION: London Can Take It! (1940 - 9 Minutes) Directed by Harry Watt and Humphrey Jennings Words For Battle (1941 - 8 Minutes) Compiled and Directed by Humphrey Jennings Spoken by Laurence Olivier Listen To Britain (1942 - 18 Minutes)
Actor : Various
Director: Humphrey Jennings
Genre: Drama
Year: 1940-1942
Studio: Flicker Alley
Length: 182 min
Released: March 14, 2017
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: DVD
Misc: NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Director: Humphrey Jennings
Genre: Drama
Year: 1940-1942
Studio: Flicker Alley
Length: 182 min
Released: March 14, 2017
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: DVD
Misc: NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
DESCRIPTION:
Humphrey Jennings was one of the greatest figures in the celebrated British documentary film movement, and he is most remembered for the way his work reflects the concerns and conditions of World War II-time in the United Kingdom. He is undoubtedly of great historical importance, but the ultimate justification for the present gathering of work is that Jennings was a wonderful filmmaker who made uniquely beautiful films. Contained within this one man was a seemingly impossible array of artistic abilities. He had a poets command of film language, a painters eye for evocative imagery and composition, a musicians ear for rhythm and tone and counterpoint, a Soviets sense of juxtaposition, a journalists nose for the concrete and the factual, and a compassionate mans love for the people he portrayed. It may seem paradoxical that an artist of such positively romantic parts should have labored almost exclusively in the documentary realm, with all that it implies of subordination to subject and sponsor. But Jennings particular talents emerged at a time of very particular need, and that seeming subordination to a cause is in fact the key to the continuing resonance of his work. In the incongruous coupling of the Cambridge aesthete and the British propaganda machine, both parties turned out to be anxious to compromise for the sake of the union. In these pictures, Jennings impressive aesthetic arsenal helped to expand the scope and the vocabulary of documentary. In turn, the documentary idea, especially in time of war, served to focus and direct his aesthetic impulses to public ends. The result was a short, shining, perfect marriage. FILMS INCLUDED IN COLLECTION: London Can Take It! (1940 - 9 Minutes) Directed by Harry Watt and Humphrey Jennings Words For Battle (1941 - 8 Minutes) Compiled and Directed by Humphrey Jennings Spoken by Laurence Olivier Listen To Britain (1942 - 18 Minutes)
| Product Name | Listen to Britain: And Other Films by Humphrey Jennings on DVD |
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