Brief Encounter

[KeithMacdonald]

Now on BBC iPlayer

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00041p7/brief-encounter

 

Featuring Carnforth railway station and a few steam trains. Available until Sat 10pm.

 

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The film is widely cited by film critics, historians and scholars as one of the greatest films of all-time. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked it as the second greatest British film of all time. In 2017, a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw it ranked the twelfth best British film ever.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_Encounter

[eastwestdivide]

Also related, on Radio 3, 27 Dec:

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Brief Encounters

Between the Ears

Stories of real life chance encounters, inspired by the 75th anniversary of the much-loved film Brief Encounter. Introduced by Matthew Sweet. 

Using different recordings of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 - which famously underscores the 1945 film - Between the Ears reflects on how a chance meeting can change our lives forever.

In the 1950s two people bump into each other changing trains at Harrow-on-the-Hill station. In 2001, two strangers meet on a train bound for Edinburgh. In 2014 two paths cross in a departure lounge at Toronto Airport. Meanwhile, a few Christmases ago in a pub in Margate eyes meet across a crowded bar....

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ql9m

[brianusa]

2 hours ago, eastwestdivide said:

Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 - which famously underscores the 1945 film

It certainly added to the appeal of this movie and spawned similar sound tracks,  from the Warsaw Concerto to the Dream of Olwen, maybe Cornish Rhapsody!

        Brian.

[Steamport Southport]

Surely that should be "The bloody awful Warsaw Concerto!"  

 

That's for Spike.