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It is interesting to compare the fates of Psycho and Peeping Tom, two psychological horror films with similarly transgressive themes that appeared within weeks of each other 60 years ago. Alfred Hitchcock, as we noted a couple of weeks back, battled with his studio over Psycho and ended up financing it himself. It was a box office triumph. eeping Tom, on the other hand, destroyed Michael Powell's career: the vitriolic reception that greeted it in the UK ensured he never made another film there. In fact, though he lived on for 30 years, he hardly made another film anywhere, and ended up in genteel poverty, unable to heat his house. It was a sad finale for a man who should be seen as one of the great geniuses of 20th-century British cinema, on a par with Hitchcock, or David Lean. A reappraisal that began in the 1980s and was led by Martin Scorsese has restored Powell's reputation, and his great films are sometimes shown on television. But one feels that he is admired rather than loved, in part perhaps because of his work's stern originality, and its oddness.
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Filmed in drenched Technicolor, it was also a kind of requiem. Writing many years later, the New Yorker's Anthony Lane assessed its significance best: "It may be the best British film ever made, not least because it looks so closely at the incurable condition of being English. " It was indeed a great film, but there was much, much more to come. In A Matter of Life and Death (1946), David Niven played a dashing RAF bomber pilot who bails out high above the English Channel and somehow survives the fall. He has a brain injury, and as he is tended to by an American radio operator (Kim Hunter) and a kindly country doctor (Roger Livesey again), we come and go between our world and a highly organised paradise to which the pilot was supposed to ascend. It's a charming film, simultaneously whimsical and profound, full of bravura effects like time-freezing and that wonderful slow escalator to the heavens. Black Narcissus (1947), which (along with Colonel Blimp and A Matter of Life and Death) gets shown on Film Four from time to time, is a gorgeously photographed melodrama starring Deborah Kerr as the Sister Superior of an Anglican mission in the Himalayas who struggles to keep the inflamed passions of her charges from boiling over.
But this was strong stuff for 1960, and though Peeping Tom has since been hailed as a masterpiece, contemporary critics were outraged. Bohm later poignantly recalled that at the end of the film's premiere, not one person came up to shake his or Powell's hands. "Nauseating! " fumed the Daily Express; "it's a long time since a film disgusted me as much, " said Caroline Lejeune in The Observer; and The Tribune's Derek Hill reckoned it should be flushed "down the nearest sewer". Though he did make a couple more films in the late 60s and 70s, Powell's career never recovered. Diaries found after his death in 1990 reveal that he never stopped planning large-scale projects. And though Powell and Pressburger's films fell for a time disastrously out of fashion, their reputation was restored in the 1980s and 90s by Martin Scorsese and his editor Thelma Schoonmaker, who is also Powell's widow. What is special about those films? Well, their oddness, their slightly skewed and inebriated and dream-like way of seeing the world.
It comes after Stephen Fry revealed he was made to feel 'undesirable' in the early 80s and hated the London gay scene at the time. The writer said he struggled with loneliness after moving to the capital during the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic. Speaking to Chris Sweeney and Alan Cumming on the Queer Icons episode of the podcast Homo Sapiens, as quoted in Metro, the comedian said: 'I always hated what was called "the scene" when I arrived in London – I arrived in London at a bad time for any gay person, in 1981 during the HIV virus. 'I remember hearing about GRID – gay related immune deficiency and all kinds of other strange words… we'd go to Heaven and various other gay clubs and a sweet gay bar in Chelsea, The Queen's Head. 'Undesirable': Actor and writer Stephen Fry (pictured in February) has opened up about his difficult experiences trying to take part in the London gay scene in the 1980s 'And I didn't mind the little old pub but the look up and down sweeping eyes as you walk into a club and, in my case, the look up and down and the quick turn away.
'Water, that's the best way! ' Stephen Fry reveals that he hasn't washed his hair with shampoo for EIGHT years Published: 10:35 EST, 3 May 2020 | Updated: 10:38 EST, 3 May 2020 He recently revealed that he was made to feel 'undesirable' in the early 80s and hated the London gay scene at the time. But Stephen Fry put his troubles aside as he revealed that he has not washed his hair with shampoo for nearly a decade. Speaking on the Homo Sapiens podcast, the actor, 62, said: 'It's been about seven or eight years now, I don't use shampoo. Candid: Stephen Fry, 62, has revealed that he has not washed his hair with shampoo for nearly a decade 'I just stand under a shower. Water. That's the best way. 'When you think about it all you people who use shampoo and conditioner, all you do is strip all the oils out and make it ridiculously flyaway with shampoo. ' He added that he treated his skin in a similar way and avoided laborious grooming routines with skin creams after shaving. Instead the QI host said the occasional lather as soap was as far as he would go.