A Diary for Timothy + Fires Were Started at BFI Southbank
Overview
Ian Christie has chosen 'A Diary for Timoth'y as his selection for this alternative Top Ten of greatest films, screening with Humphrey Jennings’ other wartime masterpiece, 'Fires Were Started'. Jennings combined a realistic portrait of the lives of ordinary people in wartime with a surrealist’s ability to find poetry in the commonplace. These two films provide unique and poetic accounts of the landscape of wartime Britain.
- Director:
- Humphrey Jennings
- Country:
- UK
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