4 FILME DESPRE WINSTON CHURCHILL

4 FILME DESPRE WINSTON CHURCHILL

Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 -1965) 

Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, (n. Hozier; 1885 – 1977)

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IN WAR-RESOLUTION

IN DEFEAT-DEFIANCE

IN VICTORY-MAGNANIMITY

IN PEACE-GOODWILL

(Winston Churchill)

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IN RAZBOI-DARZENIE

IN INFRANGERE-SFIDARE

IN VICTORIE-MARINIMIE

IN TIMP DE PACE-BUNAVOINTA

(Winston Churchill)

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The Gathering Storm (film, 2002)

reg. Richard Loncraine. Scenariul se inspira din primul volum al cartii The Second World War de Winston Churchill care nareaza evenimentele politice si familiale ale autorului in perioada 1934-1939

Interpreti:

Albert Finney : Winston Churchill

Vanessa Redgrave : Clementine "Clemmie" Churchill

Jim Broadbent : Desmond Morton

Linus Roache : Ralph Wigram

Lena Headey : Ava Wigram

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Into the Storm (film, 2009)

reg.Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Actori principali:Brendan Gleeson, Janet McTeer

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Churchill (film, 2017)

Churchill, a 2017 British historical war-drama film directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, portrays Winston Churchill in June 1944 - especially in the hours leading up to D-Day. The film stars Brian Cox as the titular character with Miranda Richardson and John Slattery in supporting roles. The film was released on 2 June 2017.

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Darkest Hour (film, 2017)

Darkest Hour is a 2017 war drama film directed by Joe Wright and written by Anthony McCarten. Set in May 1940, it stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill and Kristin Scott Thomas as  Clementine Churchill and is an account of his early days as Prime Minister during World War II and the May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis, while Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht swept across Western Europe and threatened to defeat the United Kingdom. The German advance leads to friction at the highest levels of government between those who would make a peace treaty with Adolf Hitler, and Churchill, who refused.

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Filming took place at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, England as well as the Town Hall.
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Historical accuracy (w.eng.)

Writing in Slate, historian and academic John Broich called Darkest Hour "a piece of historical fiction that undertakes a serious historical task", presenting the British decision to fight Hitler as a choice rather than as inevitable. The situation in 1940 was as dire as depicted but liberties were taken with the facts.^[37] The shouting matches over possible peace negotiations were fictional. The journey on the London Underground was also fictional and there is evidence that most British people were not immediately inspired by Churchill's speeches. George Orwell believed that ordinary people already felt subjugated and might not object to a "new order".^[37]

There is no conclusive evidence that Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax were planning an imminent vote of no confidence, though that threat existed until the mid-war victories in North Africa. It is a fact that Churchill was an object of suspicion for his fellow Tories.^[37] The Labour Party confirmed that they would serve in a national government under a leader other than Chamberlain but did not name Churchill.^[38]

In The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik wrote: "…in late May of 1940, when the Conservative grandee Lord Halifax challenged Churchill, insisting that it was still possible to negotiate a deal with Hitler, through the good offices of Mussolini, it was the steadfast anti-Nazism of Attlee and his Labour colleagues that saved the day – a vital truth badly underdramatized in the current Churchill-centric film, Darkest Hour".^[39] This criticism was echoed by Adrian Smith, emeritus professor of modern history at the University of Southampton, who wrote in the New Statesman that the film was "yet again overlooking Labour's key role at the most dangerous moment in this country's history ... in May 1940 its leaders gave Churchill the unequivocal support he needed when refusing to surrender. Ignoring Attlee's vital role is just one more failing in a deeply flawed film".^[40]

Referring to Charles Moore's comment that the film was "superb Brexit propaganda", Afua Hirsch wrote in The Guardian: "I would call the film propaganda, more generally – and a great example of the kind of myth we like to promote in modern Britain. Churchill has been re-branded as a tube-travelling, minority-adoring genius, in line with a general understanding of him as 'the greatest Briton of all time'."^[41] Hirsch also criticized the film for "perpetuating the idea that Winston Churchill stood alone, at the Darkest Hour, as Nazi fascism encroached, with Britain a small and vulnerable nation isolated in the north Atlantic. In reality the United Kingdom was at that moment an imperial power with the collective might of Indian, African, Canadian and Australian manpower, resources and wealth at its disposal." Despite the fact Canada, Australia and South Africa all achieved independence before the war with the passing of the Statute of Westminster and Status of the Union Act.^[42]

The film gives the impression that both Clemmie and the King were able to listen to the 'beaches' speech live from Parliament. This was impossible because radio broadcasts from Parliament did not start until the 1970s. Whilst Churchill did record the speech for posterity, he did not make the recording until 1949. Nor did he, unlike some other speeches, repeat that speech on the radio shortly after giving it in Parliament.

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Critical response

Gary Oldman's performance as Winston Churchill garnered widespread critical acclaim and earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor.

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 85% based on 300 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Darkest Hour is held together by Gary Oldman's electrifying performance, which brings Winston Churchill to life even when the movie's narrative falters." On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating to reviews, the film has a normalised score of 75 out of 100, based on 50 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". PostTrak reported that over 90% of audience members gave the film a rating of either "excellent" or "very good".

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 "HOLLAND HOUSE BADLY BURNED. WS/57. Holland House, Lord Ilchester's historic 17th. Century house, has been damaged during the recent air raids on London. An oil bomb started a fire on one of the towers and a 'Molotoff breadbasket' and a shower of incendiaries fell on the building. Firemen saved the east wing from complete destruction, but the rest of the house is a shell. Holland House, just off Kensington High-street, was London's great Whig salon in the 18th century and the home of Charles James Fox, and also earlier, of Joseph Addison, founder of the Spectator. Photo shows - The famous library containing a number of valuable and historical books was completely wrecked.

 23 October 1940. "HOLLAND HOUSE BADLY BURNED.

British Museum — The British Museum and the Blitz
British Museum (The Coins and Medals Department, after an air raid 10 May 1941.
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"SUCCES IS NOT FINAL, FAILURE IS NOT FATAL. IT IS COURAGE TO CONTINUE THAT COUNTS".

(Winston Churchill)