| 'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': Watching 'Where Eagles Dare' Contributor(s): Dyer, Geoff (Author) |
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ISBN: 0525563083 ISBN-13: 9780525563082 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Film & Video - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 791.437 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.25 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Zona, Geoff Dyer--'one of our most original writers' (New York)--devoted a whole book to Andrei Tarkovsky's cult masterpiece, Stalker. Now, in this warm and funny tribute to one of his favorite movies, he revisits the action classic Where Eagles Dare. A thrilling Alpine adventure headlined by a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous. 'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' is Dyer's hilarious tribute to a film he has loved since childhood: it's a scene-by-scene analysis--or should that be send-up?--taking us from the movie's snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax. |