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‘Drive’ director, Nicolas Winding Refn.
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Today, whilst going through a box of fan letters sent to Vivien Leigh in the 1940s and 50s, I came across one from a young man who was being treated for TB in a hospital in Truro, Cornwall. He told Vivien all about it and how lonely it was only being allowed to have one visitor per week. He also said that he was fond of photography and was hoping to buy a camera so he could snap photos from his hospital room window, and could she possibly help him? She sent him a camera. Because she was amazing.
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Austrians do film:
It’s Fritz Lang’s birthday, Dec. 5, 1890 (d. 1976)…
The almost always monocle’d Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor (dubbed the “Master of Darkness” by the British Film Institute) is one of the best known émigrés from Germany’s school of Expressionism.
Lang’s most famous films are the groundbreaking Metropolis (Expressionist science-fiction), and M, his iconic contribution to the film noir genre…