#joyce cary

[audiemurphy1945]

The Horse's Mouth(1958)

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.

Joyce Cary

[cinematic-literature]

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) by John Frankenheimer    

Book title: Prisoner of Grace (1940) by Joyce Cary; Writers at Work/Paris Review 3nd Series (1967), edited by George Plimpton

Thanks to @xescie for the id.

[firstclassmovies]

THE HORSE’S MOUTH (1958). Alec Guinness is a driven artist in this offbeat comedy about a painter who must create murals at all costs.

[theoscarsproject]

The Horse’s Mouth (1958). A somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter searches for the perfect realization of his artistic vision, much to the chagrin of others.

This isn’t a bad movie exactly, it’s just really not my thing. The humour feels very on the nose, and there’s not enough solid character development or even empathy to pull me through it. Still, it’s well-shot, and I can understand why people would enjoy it. It helps that it’s an original story too, and unique for the time. 6/10.

[audiemurphy1945]

The Horse’s Mouth(1958)

[audiemurphy1945]

The Horse's Mouth(1958)

[spectaculardistractions]

The problems besetting a more complex approach are illustrated by Thorold Dickinson's Men of Two Worlds (1946), from a story by Joyce Cary. A coloured concert pianist, sent back to his tribe on a friendship mission, finds himself succumbing to the spells of a malevolent witch doctor. Any overtone of spiritual paternalism is overridden by our identification with the pianist, and Dickinson's hallucinogenic direction bulldozes us into admitting the irrational unconscious in ourselves also. Brothers under the skin, we're edged even deeper into that grey matter where libidinal nightmares skulk in wait for all.

Raymond Durgnat, A Mirror for England