Showing posts with label Mary Webb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mary Webb. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 02, 2026

Restoration of Gone to Earth to be shown in London Film Festival


From the London Film Festival website:

Long overshadowed within Powell and Pressburger's canon, this major new restoration reveals the visual splendour and dramatic intensity of one of their most misunderstood films.

Powell and Pressburger’s passionate Technicolor melodrama stars Jennifer Jones as the free-spirited Hazel, who refuses to be bound either by her clergyman husband or the predatory squire who pursues her. 

The untamed Shropshire landscape is at one with Hazel’s primal spirit, making this one of the filmmakers' most rhapsodic odes to the English countryside and among their most intoxicatingly sensual achievements.

The showing of Gone to Earth is on Wednesday 7 October (6pm) at the National Film Theatre.

Sunday, June 08, 2025

Discovering the Shropshire filming locations of Gone to Earth

British film history meets Shropshire hill porn. What's not to like?

As the blurb from Third Rate Content on YouTube says:

Journey into the heart of Shropshire where the magic of 'Gone to Earth' was captured through film. This video blends history, mystery, folklore, and magic, taking you to the very places where the story unfolded,

Warning: May contain Stiperstones.