A book in celebration of The Third Man, voted the best British film ever in the BFI millennium poll.
John Fowles gained international recognition in 1963 with his first published novel, "The Collector," but his labor on what may be his greatest literary undertaking, his journals, commenced over a decade earlier. Fowles, whose works include "The Maggot," "The French Lieutenant's Woman," and "The Ebo[...]
The British cinema during the 1940s was enjoying an unlikely renaissance. During the Second World War and its aftermath, filmmakers were finding a new freedom to reflect the national mood, producing works of unparalleled ambition and boldness. Films like "Henry V", "Brief Encounter", "The Red Shoes"[...]
The producer behind such celebrated films as The Four Feathers and The Third Man is one of the most colourful and important figures in the history of the British cinema. This gripping biography tells how with extraordinary ambition, enterprise and showmanship, Alexander Korda established in Britain[...]