A Canterbury Tale
August 4, 2006
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger updated Chaucer’s A Canterbury Tale by setting it during World War II (the film actually came out in 1944) – August 1943 to be exact, when U.S. soldiers were arriving in England in preparation for D-Day. Right...
Kind Hearts and Coronets
March 14, 2006
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) is a classic black comedy, a satire of the English class system that shows the conflicts and disparities within this system. It is also a revenge comedy where the act of murder becomes an art unto itself. Embittered by...
