Dr No (Young, 1962): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.40pm
This film is the first of the James Bond weekend at BFI Southbank. Full details here.
The press reviews of the films don't capture the excitement of this
retrospective for Bond fans and I am recommending the Blogalongabond
series by Neil Alcock (aka @theincrediblesuit on Twitter). Here is his take on the first movie in the Bond franchise.
Time Out review:
The first Bond film, made comparatively cheaply but effectively
establishing a formula for the series - basically a high-tech gloss
repackaging of the old serials - and setting up a box-office bonanza
with its gleeful blend of sex, violence and wit. As memorable as
anything in the series (the arteries hadn't hardened yet) are modest
highlights like Bond's encounter with a tarantula, Honeychile's first
appearance as a nymph from the sea, the perils of Dr No's assault course
of pain.
Here is Bond's first introduction to the film-going public.
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