57 episodes
History in Technicolour David Crowther and Wolf O'Neill
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4.7 • 13 Ratings
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Wolf and David explore the history films we love or (or sometimes, films we’d loved just a little less but find interesting). Turns out we like different things…anyway, then we given them a score for two things – how good are they as a film, and how accurate are they with their history.
When you’ve listened, join us at the History of England Facebook Group – you can vote, and tell us what you think of the film, and you can even tell us (in no uncertain terms) what you think of our views (while writing to your MP in the strongest possible terms).
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Napoleon
Ridley Scott's long awaited latest epic; a 'character study' of one of the most influential figures of European history, who reshaped a continent. It has been accompanied by furious debate, criticism, praise and confusion. Henry, Wolf and David rushed to see it, and to chat about it.
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Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan's biography of J Robert Oppenheimer is visually stunning, rich, ambitious...also quite long. Did it engage you, was it thought provoking, present a convincing view of it's subject? We talk about that.
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The Great Escape
Released in 1863 The Great Escape has got to be one of the definitive tales of derring-do, the ultimate escapism, in the 'film is fun' genre. What role would you have had if you had been there?
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Chariots of Fire
I remember back in 1981 this film was a sensation; we were all running around on beaches in slo-mo. Has it stood the test of time, though, and is it any more than a bit of fluff?
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Bright Star
Jane Campion's Bright Star was released in 2009 and featured on the lives of Fanny Browne and John Keats in the last years of Keat's life. Abbie Cornish and Ben Wishaw do a brilliant job of recreating their lives
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Gladiator
Ridley Scott's classic - is it, and were you entertained or did it unleash hell? Has it stood the test of time? And how well does the revenge format work? This and much more - and a discussion of the ubiquitous agricultural yield ratios.
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Customer Reviews
Fun podcast
Fun, easy to listen to podcast. I love listening to David and Wolf discuss movies I’ve seen.
A different David Crowther
Don't come to this thinking you are getting more of the David Crowther of The History of England. This is a bombastic, belligerent, and rather obnoxious Crowther, who comes up with absurdities such as: for Land and Freedom - despite the tens of millions killed by Communists and the hundreds of millions repressed by them - a filmmaker can't criticise communists within a movie about the Comunists and other Spanish Republican factions, unless also having an equal go at the fascists (as if we need movies to tell us that fascism is bad). This example also represents a common but tiresome criticism made by Crowther & O'Neill: that the film-makers didn't quite make the film they wanted (often, didn't push the political or historical spin they preferred). This sort of comment has little to do with the intrinsic merits of the films, and much more to do with these reviewers wanting to have their personal perspectives reinforced.
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