Rome Express (Forde, 1932): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 8.50pm
This 35mm presentation is part of the 'Station to Station: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Top Ten Train Films' season. Full details here. The screening of Rome Express on Tuesday 21 July will include an introduction with writer Jonathan Coe, hosted by writer and season curator Kazuo Ishiguro.BFI introduction:
German star Conrad Veidt and ace Austrian cameraman Günther Krampf bring
a near-expressionist Weimar sensibility to this riveting British
thriller, set aboard a train filled with enjoyably stiff-upper-lipped
stereotypes. Deplorably neglected today, this deserves to be remembered
both as a classic and as a strangely serendipitous blending of two
normally opposed cinematic styles.
Here (and above) is the opening.
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