Gathers Greene's film writings, and offers a brief introduction to the role of motion pictures in his life and career
Greene was a prolific writer for and about film: this is the only book to collect his written contributions to the world of cinema. Included here are reviews, essays, articles, scripts, interviews, lectures, letters and film stories.
Twenty years before the celebrated films The Third Man, The Fallen Idol and Brighton Rock, Graham Greene was deeply involved with cinema as critic, essayist and polemicist. Described by Basil...
C155 1934 Book reviews SPECTATOR, July 27 'Fiction', reviews of Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller; Hordubal by Karel Capek; The World Went Mad byJohn Brophy; and India's Coral Strand by Richard Oke. C156 1934 Play review SPECTATOR, ...
Graham Greene on Film
Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene’s “complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue” would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism ...
The story of Henry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral.
It portrays a man who was traumatized as an adolescent and later suffered a mental illness that brought him to the point of suicide on several occasions; it tells the story of a restless traveler and unfailing advocate for human rights ...
For Greene, this odyssey became as much a trip into the primitive interiors of the writer himself as it was a physical journey into a land foreign to his experience. “No one who reads this book will question the value of Greene’s ...
Pico Iyer. way in Utah. and somehow she rolled the car. He was thrown out and killed. She was almost fine, though she wasrft wearing a seat belt either. And ever since . . .” And then I noticed that we were careening, at high speed, ...
People say Lovelace was a devil . He is a magnificent and unique character and such a witty talker . " " Not the devil ; but he did want to destroy Clarissa , didn't he ? " I said . " Only , " he snapped back , " because she put too ...