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140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:00 am
by MichaelB
(Silvio Narizzano, 1966)
Release date: 19 November 2018
Limited Blu-ray Edition (World Blu-ray premiere)
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One of the defining films of the 1960s, Silvio Narizzano’s adaptation of Margaret Foster’s 1965 novel stars Lynn Redgrave in an Oscar-nominated role as the put-upon teenager Georgy Parkin. Awkward and full of self-doubt, Georgy finds herself forever just outside of the ‘Swinging Sixties’ London life she craves.
Marked by a wonderfully warm and appealing central performance from Redgrave, and with its superb supporting cast including Charlotte Rampling (
Death in Venice, The Night Porter), Alan Bates (
A Kind of Loving, Women in Love) and the great James Mason (
The Reckless Moment, Age of Consent, The Deadly Affair), Georgy Girl captures the spirit of the era – and boasts one of the all-time great film theme tunes.
INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:
• High Definition remaster
• Original mono audio
• New and exclusive audio commentary with Diabolique magazine’s editor-in-chief Kat Ellinger
• Interview with Charlotte Rampling (2018)
• Jim Dale on ‘Georgy Girl’ (2018): a new audio interview with the beloved actor and award-winning songwriter
• Interview with Peter Nichols (2018): new and exclusive interview with the author, playwright and co-screenwriter of the film
• Interview with editor John Bloom (2018)
• Interview with art director Tony Woollard (2018)
• Original theatrical trailer
• Image gallery: promotional photography and publicity material
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Leanne Weston, an overview of contemporary critical responses and historic articles on the film
• World premiere on Blu-ray
• Limited Edition of 3,000 copies
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BBFC cert: 12
REGION FREE
EAN: 5037899071885
Re: 140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:36 pm
by domino harvey
I was just reading about this film in relation to that year's Oscar ceremony. Though the film is perhaps best remembered from that year's festivities for pitting Redgrave against Redgrave in Best Actress (with Lynn Redgrave facing down her sister for Morgan), it also marked one of the first times that a leading actor willingly consented to being nominated in supporting, which had for decades been considered a category to recognize non-A-listers. James Mason resented being put there so much that he refused to let the studio campaign him for the Pumpkin Eater, where he likely would have received an earlier nom. But he finally relented here and was subsequently nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and became one of the first to break the ice
140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:42 pm
by MichaelB
Best Actress was a very strange line-up that year, because quite aside from the Redgrave sisters there were two foreign-language performances - Anouk Aimée in A Man and a Woman (French) and Ida Kamińska in The Shop on the High Street (Slovak - a first and only!). So it's perhaps no surprise that it went to Elizabeth Taylor (in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf), as the odd one out.
Re: 140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:44 pm
by domino harvey
From what I read of their quotes to the press, both Redgraves went into the ceremony fully believing Taylor would win, but they of course may have just said that to deflect the question of what they'd do if their sister won
Re: 140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 1:20 pm
by Randall Maysin
James Mason thought he was the lead of The Pumpkin Eater? LOL! Am I not getting this? And from what I hear there was a similar situation with Shelley Winters, for Lolita, although I personally don't think she was a lead actor in that either.
Re: 140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 1:23 pm
by domino harvey
Not exactly. He (not inaccurately) considered himself a leading man and while he would take a smaller role, he would not campaign for Best Supporting Actor, which was not seen as a category for A-Listers. Winters, however, did campaign in lead for Lolita and came up empty handed
Re: 140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 1:38 pm
by MichaelB
Mason would certainly qualify as a leading man under most circumstances, but he’s unambiguously a supporting actor in The Pumpkin Eater by any yardstick - relatively brief screen time, relative unimportance as someone not a member of the family at its heart, etc.
Re: 140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 1:42 pm
by domino harvey
Right, and he knew that. But he didn't want to be recognized in the category, so he wouldn't let the studio submit him at all. Also worth noting that Winters learned her lesson too and earned her second Oscar in Supporting not long after Lolita for A Patch of Blue
Re: 140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 4:32 am
by MichaelB
Full and final specs:
Re: 140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 6:05 pm
by colinr0380
Re: 140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 6:27 pm
by domino harvey
Almost as sad as the time he missed Mr T at the mall
Re: 140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2018 2:27 pm
by domino harvey
I found this supremely annoying. The film stands in spirit with A Thousand Clowns (and later movies like Juno), offering a lead kook ostensibly representing a voice of youth and outsiderdom but in a phony way that flatters an older audience looking in from the outside. Like Jason Robards in Coe's film, I quickly tired of Redgrave's own drummer act, and her being surrounded by Alan Bates and Charlotte Rampling all trying to one-up each other in overacting soon became an endurance test. It's hard to know where to place the most blame: Bates is surely the most obnoxious and incessant of the trio, but Rampling's ice queen routine, crescendoing in that flabbergasting maternity ward meltdown, is so absurd that I felt insulted as an audience member. Great British films of youth have survived and thrived with hyperkinetic characters and acting choices (the Knack, Billy Liar), but this is not one of them.
Re: 140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2018 6:31 am
by MichaelB
When Glenn Erickson is on form, he's one of the best online critics out there.
And he's very much on form
here - in fact, for me, he absolutely nails the film's peculiar power.
Re: 140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 5:30 pm
by MichaelB
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 1:05 pm
by MichaelB
Re: 140 Georgy Girl
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 3:23 pm
by MichaelB
