
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy'
Watching 'Where Eagles Dare'
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Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer's earlier book on film, Zona, was about Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, so it was perhaps inevitable he should next devote his unique critical and stylistic energies to Brian G. Hutton's Where Eagles Dare. A thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous.
Broadsword Calling Danny Boy is Geoff Dyer's hilarious tribute to a film he has loved since childhood: It's a scene-by-scene analysis - or should that be send-up? - taking us from it's snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax.
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Critic reviews
“This is Geoff Dyer's funniest book yet.” (Michael Ondaatje)
“This slim volume is a witty gem of personally inflected film analysis.... [Dyer] shows off an exquisite eye for visual detail.... The book complements a popcorn classic while functioning in quite a different register - in place of grandiose, visceral big-screen thrills, Dyer's fleet work gives off a playful, often funny intellectual high.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Dyer is one of our greatest living critics - not of the arts, but of life itself - and one of our most original writers.” (New York)
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