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DavidDevant
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A Warning to the Curious (1972)
Atmosphères!
Like most other reviewers here, I love this short film dearly. One of the best adaptations of M.R. James to date alongside "Whistle and I'll come to you" and "Lost Hearts".
I just want to add that the music used in "A Warning to the Curious" is a section of the aptly named "Atmosphères for Orchestra" by György Ligeti written in 1961. Previously used to great effect by Stanley Kubrick in "2001: A Space Odyssey" during the star gate sequence and I'm pretty sure that the version used here in "A Warning to the Curious" is the same version used by Kubrick in "2001" - Ernest Bour conducting The Sudwestfunk Orchestra.
The London Nobody Knows (1968)
Wonderful film of Geoffrey Fletcher's book.
If you enjoy the "off the beaten track" walks and can see beyond the banality of an everyday street, "The London Nobody Knows" is for you. Based on Geoffrey Fletcher's book of the same name, it follows a path round London's more seedy and incongruous locations. Despite being made in 1967 many of the locations visited still remain today, while some are sadly gone forever. This film makes a viewer want to go out and explore their own "town/city nobody knows" and realise that there is always a lot more around them than first meets the eye. Narrated and presented by James Mason, this film really should be seen by fans of Psychogeography.