Brief Encounter (1946 Cannes Award Winner)
About this episode
This episode discusses the 1946 film Brief Encounter, a Grand Prix winner at the Cannes Film Festival.
The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features one of the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winners, David Lean’s Brief Encounter . Directed and co-written by David Lean and starring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey and Cyril Raymond, Brief Encounter was one of 11 films to tie for the Grand Prix at the first-ever Cannes Film Festival. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1946/08/26/archives/the-screen-in-review.html ), Variety , and C.A. Lejeune in The Observer ( https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/16/brief-encounter-romance-archive-review ). Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at…
People in this episode
Hosts: Jason Harris, Josh Bell
Topics covered
- Cannes Film Festival
- 1946 films
- David Lean
- film reviews
- romantic drama
Keywords
- Brief Encounter
- Cannes Film Festival
- David Lean
- film reviews
- 1946 movies
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Cannes Film Festival, The New York Times, Variety, The Observer
Books & works: Brief Encounter
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