A dreamy tropic idyll … or a dirty old man’s movie? Our verdict chooses the first option for Michael Powell’s retelling of the old tale of the artist’s innocent yet sensual creative adventure with his young model. Producer James Mason eases nicely into the part, but then-newcomer Helen Mirren takes the prize as the most fearless and liberated woman in filmdom circa 1969.
Age of Consent
Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1969 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 107, 100 min. / / Street Date November 26, 2018 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £14.99
Starring: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran, Neva Carr-Glyn.
Cinematography: Hannes Staudinger
Film Editor: Dennis Gentle
Original Music: Peter Sculthorpe, Stanley Myers
Written by Peter Yeldham from a novel by Norman Lindsay
Produced by James Mason, Michael Pate, Michael Powell
Directed by Michael Powell
The great director Michael Powell’s career was all but finished in 1969. After leaving his partnership with Emeric Pressburger, he hit a major commercial...
Age of Consent
Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1969 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 107, 100 min. / / Street Date November 26, 2018 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £14.99
Starring: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran, Neva Carr-Glyn.
Cinematography: Hannes Staudinger
Film Editor: Dennis Gentle
Original Music: Peter Sculthorpe, Stanley Myers
Written by Peter Yeldham from a novel by Norman Lindsay
Produced by James Mason, Michael Pate, Michael Powell
Directed by Michael Powell
The great director Michael Powell’s career was all but finished in 1969. After leaving his partnership with Emeric Pressburger, he hit a major commercial...
- 11/27/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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By Hank Reineke
Blue Underground’s double-feature Blu Ray issue of Code 7… Victim 5 and Mozambique is a generous release considering the company chose to simultaneously issue both films as standalone DVDs. Both films are among the earliest big screen efforts of notorious exploitation producer Harry Alan Towers. Both were adapted from Tower’s own semi-original scenarios (under his usual pseudonym of “Peter Welbeck”) and both were penned by the Australian screenwriter Peter Yeldham with British director Robert Lynn at the helm.
Both men had been working in television and, like Towers, were now gingerly testing the waters of the international movie business. The films, modest thrillers financed by Tower’s UK Company “Towers of London,” nonetheless share a continental roster of technicians and actors. The films are serviceably entertaining as thrillers, but are most ambitious in conveying a jet-setting ‘60s ambiance. The fact...
By Hank Reineke
Blue Underground’s double-feature Blu Ray issue of Code 7… Victim 5 and Mozambique is a generous release considering the company chose to simultaneously issue both films as standalone DVDs. Both films are among the earliest big screen efforts of notorious exploitation producer Harry Alan Towers. Both were adapted from Tower’s own semi-original scenarios (under his usual pseudonym of “Peter Welbeck”) and both were penned by the Australian screenwriter Peter Yeldham with British director Robert Lynn at the helm.
Both men had been working in television and, like Towers, were now gingerly testing the waters of the international movie business. The films, modest thrillers financed by Tower’s UK Company “Towers of London,” nonetheless share a continental roster of technicians and actors. The films are serviceably entertaining as thrillers, but are most ambitious in conveying a jet-setting ‘60s ambiance. The fact...
- 1/30/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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