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Up to 1938, Adrian Allinson usually spent part of each spring and summer in the Mediterranean. This landscape is most likely Ibiza. Allinson would make initial sketches in situ, and then each winter, he painted the scenes at his north London studio.
If you enjoyed Emeric Pressburger's THE GLASS PEARLS, Sally Carson's CROKED CROSS or Anna Seghers' TRANSIT, chances are you'll like THE PASSENGER.
It would make a great film, very much in the vein of classic Hitchcock thrillers such as THE LADY VANISHES, NOTORIOUS & THE 39 STEPS! #BookSky #FilmSky
I should also mention that DOWN BY LAW looks amazing. The textured black-and-white cinematography is truly beautiful! #FilmSky
Instead, he focuses on the mundanity of his protagonists’ lives - how they ended up in jail, their time spent playing cards to relive the boredom, and their ramshackle attempts to evade the authorities in the film’s final act. Wonderful stuff #FilmSky (2/2)
DOWN BY LAW (Jim Jarmusch, 1986).
Loved the downbeat, deadpan comedy in this one, which probably set the template for much of JJ’s subsequent work!
Jarmusch avoids the usual tropes of crime / prison-break films by shooting the scenes in between the traditional ‘action’. #FilmSky (1/2)