Geoff Dyer's earlier book on film, Zona, was about Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, so it was perhaps inevitable that he should next devote his unique critical and stylistic energies to Brian G. Hutton's Where Eagles Dare. A thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous.
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' is Geoff Dyer's hilarious tribute to a film he has loved since childhood: it's a scene-by-scene analysisamp;mdash;or should that be send-up?amp;mdash;taking us from it's snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigoamp;mdash;inducing climax.
Geoff Dyer's earlier book on film, Zona, was about Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, so it was perhaps inevitable that he should next devote his unique critical and stylistic energies to Brian G. Hutton's Where Eagles Dare. A thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous.
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' is Geoff Dyer's hilarious tribute to a film he has loved since childhood: it's a scene-by-scene analysisamp;mdash;or should that be send-up?amp;mdash;taking us from it's snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigoamp;mdash;inducing climax.
Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: Watching 'Where Eagles Dare'
Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: Watching 'Where Eagles Dare'
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BN ID: | 2940169125320 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
Publication date: | 02/12/2019 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |