Have doubts about the upcoming invasion, and Tom beginsĮxperiencing premonitions of his own death. As their company trains for what willĮventually become the D-Day landings, all three start to Serve his country, and in the course of his basic trainingīecomes friends with fellow recruit Arthur and the moreĮxperienced Jack. Which they drew on extensively in the construction ofġ944, and innocent, 20-year-old Tom has been called up to Cooper and co-screenwriterĬhristopher Hudson were also given access to lettersĪnd diaries of soldiers who took part in the D-Day landings, Was to prove essential to Cooper's approach. Was instigated by the Imperial War Museum, whose extensiveĬooperation and assistance throughout the production Mark the thirtieth anniversary of D-Day landings, the project Jerry Harvey was so struck by it that he programmedĪ season of work by this relatively unknown filmmaker A shared love of theįilm was one of the things that contributed to the strongestįriendship I ever had, while Los Angeles film obsessive Of an intimate story in an almost apocalyptic setting. The overriding sense of restraint in the handling Hesitations and uncertainties of the characters, and The so-real exchanges between soldiers, the small It could actually be the work of anyone but a born and bred Brit.Īnd I'm not talking about the story itself, which couldĮasily be adapted to accommodate an American abroad,īut the fine detail, the dialogue and delivery,
This is not the emergence of some previously buried xenophobia, it's just that Overlord is so.well.British – I'dĮven risk saying English – that it seemed inconceivable Was years before I saw an interview with him and cannotĭescribe the shock I got at discovering that he was American. Stuart Cooper, or to see anything else he'd made. It was hard for an ordinary working stiff to find out much about the film's director, And years later, having seen the filmįor the first time in I don't know how long, I have no trouble standing Or fragmented narrative, but no other term seemed toīetter capture this extraordinary film's unique handling of Sound pretentious or like an attempt to excuse an absent Oh, I know that drawingĬomparisons between two vastly different media can Shot material – impressive though that is – it was the
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Sometimes seamless marrying of archive footage to freshly I've thrown it all away."įirst released in the UK, but I can't for the life of
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