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Blitz

2024-10-05 20:16:59 | Reading - celebrity/gossip
It's promising. The Blitz and Sir. Steve. And Paul Weller.

‘I wasn’t interested in Churchill’: Steve McQueen on the ‘ordinary people’ in his film Blitz
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/oct/04/steve-mcqueen-ordinary-people-film-blitz-war

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grimy
raid
pick over
blitz spirit
abundance [quote]The blitz spirit is here in abundance [Collins]Food was in abundance.
pull together
namecheck
poignancy
brink [quote]There’s Somalia, which is on the brink of war now, which doesn’t get a lot of headlines.
warden
Benjamin Clémentine
munitions
chore (noun)
in [quote]I thought to myself, that’s my ‘in’ - I cannot find the meaning
desensitise
turn a blind eye
deem

‘Not many people know what happened’: covered up London Blitz tragedy is inspiration for Steve McQueen’s new film
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/sep/15/not-many-people-know-what-happened-covered-up-london-blitz-tragedy-is-inspiration-for-steve-mcqueens-new-film

Blitzkrieg
Bethnal Green
Balham
Bianca Stigter
stairwell

I didn't know about Bethnal Green tube disaster.


What the director says hits home as his films. I want to watch Occupied City, too.
But I'm also interested in Churchill and Monty. Hitler and Goring are more than that.

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