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English-born American editor and author; editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, and author of the family memoir Charmed Lives (1979) and lives of Eisenhower, T. E. Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
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Brief EncounterOther David Lean
Brief Encounter has always seemed to me the very best of classic British filmmaking, with its fiercely restrained emotions and good manners trumping passion, typical of its era.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Michael Korda, the entry for Brief Encounter.
2011-11-29·criterion.com ↗
Great ExpectationsOther David Lean
Crisp, brilliantly cast, a flawless rendition of the period, and amazingly faithful to the novel, Great Expectations is the model that every Masterpiece Theater rendition of an English classic strives to emulate, only better, far better than that.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Michael Korda, the entry for Great Expectations.
2011-11-29·criterion.com ↗
Paths of GloryOther Stanley Kubrick
But Paths of Glory is one of the last great triumphs of black-and-white filmmaking.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Michael Korda, the entry for Paths of Glory.
2011-11-29·criterion.com ↗
RififiOther Jules Dassin
Rififi was a stunner, and an eye-opener, teaching us that French gangsters were a lot more interesting and attractive than our own mobsters, but just as tough, if not tougher.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Michael Korda, the entry for Rififi.
2011-11-29·criterion.com ↗
Tunes of GloryOther Ronald Neame
The regiment in Tunes of Glory is like one of those, a small, enclosed world, and in it the rivalry between the brash and heroic young colonel and his replacement leads to a sad and messy tragedy. It is one of those brilliant “little” films that almost reaches greatness, and it remains, along with The Hill and Zulu, one of the iconic films about the British Army.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Michael Korda, the entry for Tunes of Glory.
2011-11-29·criterion.com ↗
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