Dilys Powell is the doyenne of British film critics. Reviewing for the Sunday Times, and more recently Punch, she has built up a reputation for perceptive assessment. Divided into thematic sections, this selection from over fifty years of criticism reveals her views on such topics as British cinema, the French, film stars, genres, adaptations, and censorship. In addition to critiques of such key films as Citizen Kane and Rashomon, there are entertaining pieces on biblical epics, biopics, and the musical, and sections on films she loathed and those she tried hard to like.

The Dilys Powell Film Reader

Humor & Entertainment

Powell, Dilys

Movies

Oxford University Press

An exciting true-life story blending archaeological history, military adventure, romance, and travel.

The Villa Ariadue

Literature & Fiction

Hodder and Stoughton

An unforgettable evocation of a country and its people, AN AFFAIR OF THE HEART was hailed as a classic when it was first published more than forty years ago, and is still regarded as one of the most outstanding books on Greece ever written. Dilys Powell spent many years in Greece before World War II, returning there in 1945 after the tragic early death of her husband. In this personal odyssey, she not only gives a deeply moving account of her journeys, but draws us in to share her joy in a timeless land and its gallant, indestructible people.

An Affair of the Heart

Travel

Europe

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

The Golden Screen: Fifty Years of Films

PERRY, George

Headline

An unforgettable evocation of a country and its people, AN AFFAIR OF THE HEART was hailed as a classic when it was first published more than forty years ago, and is still regarded as one of the most outstanding books on Greece ever written. Dilys Powell spent many years in Greece before World War II, returning there in 1945 after the tragic early death of her husband. In this personal odyssey, she not only gives a deeply moving account of her journeys, but draws us in to share her joy in a timeless land and its gallant, indestructible people.

An Affair Of The Heart

Biographies & Memoirs

Magna Large Print Books

Affair of the Heart

Immel Publishing Ltd

(Applause Books). Dilys Powell, doyenne of British film critics, is the film reviewer with the longest tenure and one of the most loyal followings of any in Britain. Her work is celebrated in this discriminating collection of reviews and essays for the Sunday Times and other publications. Christopher Cook, the documentary film-maker, writer and broadcaster, follows a thematic approach, diving the book into twelve sections, ranging from 'British Cinema 1939-45,' 'The French,'and 'Genre,' to the work of particular directors and questions of censorship. Hardcover.

Cook. Christopher

Applause

The Villa Ariadne is a meditation on the island of Crete, centered on the house built by Sir Arthur Evans, the famous archaeologist of Knossos. Dilys Powell captures the spirit of a place she loved dearly and a group of people she knew well, from local Cretans to the archaeologists Evans and Pendlebury, and the German General Kreipe who was famously kidnapped on the island by Paddy Leigh-Fermor in one of the most audacious actions of World War II. Weaving the myths of the island with its archaeology, ancient history, and modern tales, she gives us a loving portrait of this classical land.

The Villa Ariadne

Historical

Eland Publishing

Dilys Powell's love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sun-baked archaeological dig in 1931. Joining her husband the archaeologist Humfry Payne on the remote peninsula of Perachora, she came to know the villagers who labored on the site, camping beside them year after year, for months at a time.Despite personal tragedy, the occupation of Greece and civil war, Powell's affair of the heart continued. She returned time and again through the '40s and '50s, and with each visit there was a reconciliation with her idyllic memories of the country. Both with Humfry and without, she explored remote mountains in the company of shepherds, isolated stretches of coast and island with local fishermen and olive-dotted hillsides with the subsistence farmers who worked them. Out of this she has fashioned a gem of a travel book.

An Affair of the Heart (Eland Classics)

Contemporary

An exciting true-life story blending archaeological history, military adventure, romance, and travel.

History

Akadine Pr

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The Dilys Powell Film Reader

The Villa Ariadue

An Affair of the Heart

The Golden Screen: Fifty Years of Films

An Affair Of The Heart

Affair of the Heart

The Dilys Powell Film Reader

The Villa Ariadne

An Affair of the Heart (Eland Classics)

The Villa Ariadne