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- Barren Lives (1963) Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos. Rooted in Italian neorealism and the French New Wave, Brazil’s ‘cinema novo’ movement emerged at the forefront of revolutionary cinema with three films set in the country’s north-eastern sertão hinterland: Nelson Pereira dos Santos’s Barren Lives (1963), Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil (1964) and Ruy Guerra’s The Guns (1964).
- Black God, White Devil (1964) Director: Glauber Rocha. Director Glauber Rocha operated according to the maxim, “A camera in the hand and an idea in the head.”
- The Battle of Algiers (1966) Director: Gillo Pontecorvo. When Gillo Pontecorvo went to Algeria in 1962 to research a drama about the armed struggle against France, he planned to build his story around a paratrooper-turned-journalist played by Paul Newman.
- A Film like Any Other (1968) Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Inspired by the events of May 68 in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard decided to eschew authorial filmmaking for a collective form that would enable him to redefine the relationship between cinema and society.
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Production was completed in early-1969, and the film premiered on “Battle of Britain Day”, 15 September at the Dominion theatre in London, and simultaneously at major cities around the UK.
- A Man and A Plan
- Hurricane Search
- Supporting Cast
- Veteran Pilots, Old Grudges
- Rotten Luck
- Bad Blood
- Crash and Burn
Producer Ben Fisz had flown Hurricanes for the RAF and Polish air force in the war. He pitched his concept as a British The Longest Day—the 1962 20th Century Fox D-Day movie—but in the air. “This will be the biggest picture ever made in Great Britain, and possibly the biggest in the world,” enthused Fisz. But the idea of a big-budget air war epic w...
Hurricanes, which outnumbered Spitfires during the battle, had not fared so well after the war. The Ministry of Defence could supply just three, only one of which could fly. Manufacturer Hawker Siddeley provided another, and one was flown in from Canada, disassembled, aboard an RAF C-130. The sixth, a rare Sea Hurricane Ib, could taxi but tended to...
Seville’s airfields stood in as Luftwaffe air bases when filming began in March 1968. As the Spanish countryside looked nothing like Kent, the bomber scenes were filmed out over the Atlantic. For a counterattacker, Fleet Air Arm veteran, aircraft restorer and replica builder Vivian Bellamy flew a Spitfire IX fitted with a long-range external tank v...
Galland had flown with the Luftwaffe Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War, but rejected the whole premise of a Battle of Britain. “We made a number of attacks against England between July and September,” he said. “Then we discovered that we were not achieving the desired effect, and so we retired.” But Hamilton, who had lived through the Blit...
Unfortunately the bad weather followed the production to England, with similar effect on the flying schedule. “I was contracted for six weeks,” said CAF founder Wilson “Connie” Edwards, “and 11 months later I was still getting shot down—128 times, and that doesn’t count the practice runs. I could tell right quick I wasn’t gonna win the war.” (Edwar...
Bad blood still simmered, however, between adherents of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding and former No. 11 Group commander Keith Park on one side, and Bader and former 12 Group commander, the late Air Vice Marshal (later Air Chief Marshal Sir) Trafford Leigh-Mallory on the other. In the battle, Leigh-Mallory’s “Big Wing” strategy, depending on who te...
That fact flew over the heads of audiences and reviewers. “The aerial scenes are allowed to run forever and repeat themselves shamelessly, until we’re sure we saw that same Heinkel dive into the sea (sorry—the ‘drink’) three times already,” opined film critic Roger Ebert, clearly no aviation buff. After all the expense—and going up against late-’60...
- Don Hollway
Box office. $13 million. Battle of Britain is a 1969 British war film documenting the events of the Battle of Britain, the war for aerial supremacy between the German Luftwaffe and the defending Royal Air Force waged over British skies during summer of 1940. The nature of the subject drew many respected British actors to accept roles as key ...
With John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Antonio Aguilar, Roman Gabriel. After the Civil War, ex-Confederate soldiers heading for a new life in Mexico run into ex-Union cavalrymen selling horses to the Mexican government but they must join forces to fight off Mexican bandits and revolutionaries.
