Word: edwardianism
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...family in which Bobbie (Jenny Agutter), Phyllis (Sally Thomsett) and Peter (Gary Warren) grow up is nearly perfect. Mother (Dinah Sheridan) is impish and radiant, Father (Iain Cuthbertson) steadfast and affectionate. They all share the joys of Edwardian London, generous' Christmases and outings to the theater. But one evening two strange men appear and call Father away. "Some dire calamity is happening," says Bobbie, "I just know it." Indeed, Father does not return, and Mother tells the children that they will have to "play at being poor...
With all its closely observed details of Edwardian life, The Railway Children is an elegy for an era. Gas furnaces, bell boards in the kitchen, paper chases, old toys, carriages and capes, those beguiling trains-all conjure up a time of seeming innocence when unhappy endings were punishable by law. The matter of Father's mysterious disappearance is of course eventually cleared...
Greene's early life (what he does choose to tell of it) was nothing out of the ordinary. He grew up in an intellectual Edwardian family--his father was headmaster of the school which he attended. He went to Oxford, and after Oxford had a series of jobs before becoming a sub-editor of the London Times. After his first novel, he quit the Times and devoted his life to writing. The facts of his life aren't as important, of course, as the way Greene remembers or reacts to them, and the way the young Greene responded to them...
...Edward Carpenter. One of Carpenter's apostles gently touched Forster's backside, and the touch "seemed to go straight through the small of my back into my ideas." Only those who can read that without a smile will be able to appreciate Maurice. The distance between the Edwardian love that dared not speak its name and the rhetoric of the Gay Liberation Front is simply too great...
...sensual summer sunlight (Cinematographer Gerry Fisher did the superb work on both films) and haunted by time. "The past is a foreign country," says the narrator, over a shot of an English manor house. "They do things differently there." Immediately the film plunges into a splendid reconstruction of the Edwardian era, all etiquette and innuendo, cascading lace and carriages, mirrors and staircases (the last two, familiar obsessions from other Losey films). Leo Colston (Dominic Guard) is a twelve-year-old schoolboy come to pass a luxurious summer holiday with a wealthy classmate. Leo is more than a little...