'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': Watching 'Where Eagles Dare'
Geoff Dyer
Feb 2019 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Roy MacMillan
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Geoff Dyer's earlier book on film, Zona, was about Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, so it was perhaps inevitable that he should next devote his unique critical and stylistic energies to Brian G. Hutton's Where Eagles Dare. A thrilling Alpine adventure starring 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 Geoff 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 it's snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax.
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' is Geoff 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 it's snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax.
Geoff Dyer's earlier book on film, Zona, was about Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, so it was perhaps inevitable that he should next devote his unique critical and stylistic energies to Brian G. Hutton's Where Eagles Dare. A thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton...
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GEOFF DYER is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of many books, including White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World, and Zona, about Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker. His books have won numerous prizes. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California.
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www.GeoffDyer.com
GEOFF DYER is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of many books, including White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World, and Zona, about Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker. His books have won numerous prizes. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is write...
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