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Dilys Powell (1901–1995)

Forfatter af The Villa Ariadne

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Omfatter også følgende navne: Dilys Po, Dilys Powell

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Værker af Dilys Powell

The Villa Ariadne (1656) 78 eksemplarer
An Affair of the Heart (1957) 51 eksemplarer
The Dilys Powell Film Reader (1991) 8 eksemplarer
Remember Greece (2007) 4 eksemplarer
Punch At the Cinema (1981) 2 eksemplarer
Coco, a biography 1 eksemplar
Descent from Parnassus (2021) 1 eksemplar
Films Since 1939 (1947) 1 eksemplar

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The Penguin Film Review 3 — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer

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Kanonisk navn
Powell, Dilys
Juridisk navn
Powell, Elizabeth Dilys
Fødselsdato
1901-07-20
Dødsdag
1995-06-03
Køn
female
Nationalitet
UK
Fødested
Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, UK
Dødssted
London, England, UK
Bopæl
London, England, UK
Athens, Greece
Uddannelse
University of Oxford (Somerville College)
Erhverv
journalist
author
film critic
autobiographer
Relationer
Payne, Humfry (husband)
Russell, Leonard (husband)
Morrell, Lady Ottoline (manager)
Organisationer
The Sunday Times
Punch
Priser og hædersbevisninger
CBE (1974)
Kort biografi
Dilys Powell was born in Bridgnorth, England, and was educated at Talbot Heath School, Bournemouth, before winning a scholarship to read modern languages as one of the first women at Oxford University.

She graduated with first class honors and spent some time as the personal assistant of Lady Ottoline Morrell. In 1926, she married Humfry Payne, later a prominent archaeologist, whom she had met at Oxford. From 1929 to 1936, while her husband served as director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, she spent part of each year in Greece, frequently attending excavations where he was working. She became a journalist, writing for The Sunday Times of London for more than 50 years. She was best known as a film critic and coined many memorable phrases about films and actors that are still quoted today.
She also served as the film critic for Punch until it folded in 1992. During World War II, she worked for the Political Warfare Executive, which managed Britain's propaganda in Occupied Europe. In 1943, having been widowed, she married Leonard Russell, literary editor at The Sunday Times. In 1954, she was one of the founding members of the Independent Television Authority (ITA), which introduced commercial television to the UK. After the sudden death of her first husband, she wrote several volumes of autobiography, beginning with The Traveller's Journey is Done (1943), and continuing with An Affair of the Heart (1957) and The Villa Ariadne (1973). A collection of her film reviews was published in 1989 as The Golden Screen: Fifty Years at the Films. She also wrote books about travel, especially in Greece.

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A strange book; interesting and well-written but somehow lacking is structure and shape. Powell tells of the discovery (by Arthur Evans) of the Minoan palace at Knossos, Crete, his building of the Villa Ariadne, the various characters she meets over the years following her husband's appointment as manager of the archaeological work there, including the heroic and tragic wartime exploits such as those depicted in Ill Met by Moonlight. But she wanders around and eventually rather than ending the book tails off.… (mere)
 
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NaggedMan | Mar 20, 2013 |
Now someone else owns it too. Always have done, bought it on publication, always refer to it for a contemporary take on movies which have since become classics (or not). Dry, surgical, sometimes droll. Well worth digging out.
 
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lightparade | 1 anden anmeldelse | Mar 12, 2008 |
Oh my, how I love this book. Because she avoids the flash of a Pauline Kael, Dilys Powell can come across as a bit dull and prosaic but for my money she's a wonderfully erudite film reviewer. This book has brought me much pleasure over very many years and frankly it's a crime no one else on librarything - as of yet - owns a copy other than me. SORT IT OUT!
 
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irkthepurist | 1 anden anmeldelse | Oct 8, 2007 |

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