Comments on: Euphoria #12: “Don’t be so gloomy.”

By: dcairns

dcairns — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:57:06 +0000

Travel passes between time zones is a LOVELY IDEA!

By: m

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:41:47 +0000

I have been to the phone booth (out of order I was going to try and call you from it!) the hotel of course The Western Isles, the jetty, the house with the Celidh - which I forget the name but its open to the public and Duart Castle horrible and damp… And I met the lady who was the leading ladies stand in.

Could we have 39 steps tours across the forth rail bridge? I live in Trainspotting land its not much of a draw…. I’d love of coure enter Margaret Tait Land in Rose St 60 years ago - I’m not sure if the Edinburgh Tourist Board could provide travel passes between time zones…

By: dcairns

dcairns — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:38:48 +0000

Ah, M actually knows the island of Mull well. I believe she’s been to the famous phone booth. If there were a cinema there, they could show the film, but I don’t think there is.

You can go on a tour of locations for A Canterbury Tale once a year in Kent.

For some reason we have TWO famous phone booths here, the other being the one from Local Hero which is a genuine tourist attraction.

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:27:00 +0000

I Know Where I’m Going tours of course!

By: dcairns

dcairns — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:27:30 +0000

Wow! I don’t think it existed when we were there. They had 3RD MAN sewer tours, and a cinema showing it all year round. (What could any Scottish cinema do to compete?)

Happy New Year!

By: m

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:53:32 +0000

Did you know that theres a Third Man MUSEUM in Vienna ? Becky Knapp related to me a trip there - it was specially opened for producers on the ACE course. In three cottages and slightly bonkers… but fascinatig all the same. The zizther is on display.

By: dcairns

dcairns — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:22:59 +0000

That’s a glorious shot. I believe it’s Carol Reed’s fingers. (And it’s his voice narrating at the start).

I also love the “tunnel of light” we see when the final shot rings out.

By: Elver

Elver — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:50:03 +0000

Let’s not forget the fingers through the grating shot :)

By: dcairns

dcairns — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:55:35 +0000

The Quiller Memorandum is an underrated little film. Guy Hamilton, who made it (from Pinter’s script) was AD on The Third Man, and is the source of an incorrect story I want to clear up soon. Or at least, offer an alternative view on.

There’s a nice editing trick when Welles first shows: a cutaway shows the light coming on in the upstairs window, then we cut to Welles, and he’s still dark for about three frames: then the light hits his face. Reed and his editor have SLOWED DOWN THE SPEED OF LIGHT.

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:37:54 +0000

You can find variations of this walk in the ends of The Quiller Memorandum and The Long Goodbye