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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0014381148824 Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Image Entertainment Languages: Manufacturer: Image Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Image Entertainment Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 04, 2002 Running Time: 182 minutes Studio: Image Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: December 27, 1946 Editorial Review: Description: One of the greatest figures in the celebrated British Documentary film movement, Humphery Jennings is most remembered for the way his films reflected the concerns and conditions of World War II in the United Kingdom. Jennings was a wonderful filmmaker who made uniquely beautiful films. He had a poet's command of film language, a painter's eye for evocative imagery and composition, a musician's ear for rhythm and tone and counterpoint, a Soviet's sense of juxtaposition, a journalist's nose for the concrete and the factual, and a compassionate man's love for the people he portrayed. This six film collection allows the world to see the power and beauty of Jennings's historically important films. Films: London Can Take It (1940, 9 min.), Words for Battle (1941, 8 min.), Listen to Britain (1942, 18 min.), Fires Were Started (a.k.a. I Was a Fireman) (1943, 74 min.), A Diary for Timothy (1943, 39 min.), Family Portrait (1951, 24 min.). Average Rating:
 Rating: - Jennings became a genius in his war yearsThe film was recently presented at the Cinematheque in Paris for a debate on Jennings' work, with David Robinson and Elena von Kassel Siambani as debaters, and the participation of Stephen Frears. Stephen Frears' participation was disappointing because he did not say one single piece of his mind about Jennings. But the two other debaters totally missed the point by qualifying Jennings' war films as poetic. That satisfied the nostalgic audience but they completely missed the point. Too bad for our ... Read More Rating: - great wartime documentary filmsJennings is the almost unsung artist of British documentary cinema. His films are poetic yet harsh - full of compassion for the wartime difficulties of civilians just trying to live through bombing and destruction and fear of death. The films are edited like music, by association and rythmn. His films emerge today as a brillent set of cultural portraits of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in extraordinary times. |
