I Believe I'm Falling In Love With Kent

[poliphilo]

The churchyard, Smarden



Little Chart



The Archbishop's Palace (as was), Charing

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I had the good fortune to be born here! :o)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I spent my teens in Kent. It wasn't a particularly happy time.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Nor were my early teens for reasons you're aware of- I suspect Kent kept me sane during that period although in a sense, Belgium was the place I came of age.

[sovay]

I Believe I'm Falling In Love With Kent

Photoessay for Powell and Pressburger!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

'A Canterbury Tale' has sublime Kentish imagery- just a tragedy it got so badly chopped up by the censors and no director's cut survives.

[sovay]

just a tragedy it got so badly chopped up by the censors and no director's cut survives.

I don't believe that's the case. I own the Criterion DVD and the version it presents is the two-hour British original, extended digression of children's river battle with apples and wooden guns included. The extras include scenes from the American version, such as the frame with Johnson and his girl back in the States, but I've never felt the need to watch them.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Some of the places I've been visiting were used as locations by the Archers. I need to sort out exactly what was filmed where.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My favourite movie.

But I'd never heard it got chopped about by the censors. The version I know (and own on DVD) seems to be unmutilated.

[sovay]

But I'd never heard it got chopped about by the censors. The version I know (and own on DVD) seems to be unmutilated.

The American release deleted a number of scenes (including the children's play-fight) and added new narration and a frame-story with Johnson and his fiancée after the war, to make it more relatable to an American audience; I've never watched any of this material. The BFI supervised the restoration of the original version during the Archers renaissance in, I guess, the '80's, and that's what's currently available on DVD.

[basefinder.livejournal.com]

It certainly looks nice! I think I would enjoy a visit, if I ever get over there.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I haven't seen as much of it as I'd like. Your photos make me want to go there again.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I have to two hour original but it was badly messed about with by the censors which is why there are those odd little gaps in the story- the young US squaddie not going for the meal he's invited to with the old wheelwright and his wife, for example.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Fordwich for one and iirc, Selling station and the pub he lodges in is in Bekesbourne. The farm cart lodges and 'manor house' are in Wickhambreaux (although the cart lodges sadly collapsed back in the eighties). I lived for some time in Littlebourne when doing my MA at UKC so got to know the area pretty well.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I love the play fight.

I've read about the American release but I've never come across it. I'd like to think it's no longer current

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I need to check those places out.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I live near Manchester. We have nothing comparable up there. You go down any lane in Kent and there's a picture perfect village at the end of it- or so it seems.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's so much to see. I've only just begun to scratch the surface.