Scotland as Screen: Vexed Projections in I Know Where I’m Going! – The International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen

An exceptional essay on, among other things; place, other worlds and the transcendence of rear projection ijosts.glasgow.ac.uk/vol-8/scotla... #IKWIG #powellandpressburger

The Corryvreckan whirlpool. Lovely stuff #IKWIG #BBC2

Flash her your sporran, Torquil #IKWIG #BBC2

My essay on Powell and Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going is available on this week’s Spectator Out Loud podcast, in distinguished company and read out in my best broadcasting voice. Tune in and then watch this marvellous film.
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Joan: "What's that noise?"
Ruairidh Mhór: "That would be the seals singing."
Joan: "The seals?"
Ruairidh Mhór: "Yes, yes, they like the warm, foggy weather."

--"I Know Where I'm Going!" (Powell and Pressburger, 1945) #IKWIG #PowellandPressbuger #TheArchers

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I adore Pamela Brown in “I Know Where I’m Going,” in which she plays an especially memorable scene w/several enormous Irish wolfhounds, Wendy Hiller, and Roger Livesy. #IKWIG @tomasjmurray.bsky.social

Still in rapturous haze after this weekend’s film pilgrimage to Mull, which I will write about soon… #IKWIG #Iknowwhereimgoing #powellpressburger

"The fish do not know him." It's a primeval antipathy! #IKWIG #TCMParty

Instead, she's Diana, goddess of the hunt, dragging Scotland indoors to offer Joan an alternative femininity! #IKWIG #TCMParty

*a free man goddammit #TCMParty #IKWIG

When he says "made for me" and turns those laser eyes on her, she knows darn well where she's going - she just spends the rest of #IKWIG resisting that knowledge

(The lyric may be "maid for me," but we take his point ; )
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At almost no point does she actually know where she’s going. #TCMParty #IKWIG

Of course, she’d already been to the castle and read the curse. #IKWIG #TCMParty

I see the wedding scene in Ann Lee's S&S as a nod to this joyous wee procession. #IKWIG #TCMParty

“. . . never shall he leave it after man” [bagpipes start playing “Nut Brown Maiden.”] #IKWIG #TCMParty

In the Hallmark version, Katrina would be the gently wise-cracking sister / therapist

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Darn it! Nice weather! #TCMParty #IKWIG

The Scottish Eagle was an unsuccessful sequel to the The Maltese Falcon. #TrueHollywoodFact #IKWIG #TCMParty

Sensibilities are a bit different now
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The two weeks I spent in Scotland were
two of the best of my life

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Scotland is all . . . #IKWIG #TCMParty

Man! This is like Sensurround! #IKWIG #TCMPaarty

🎶Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale/A tale of a fateful trip🎶 #IKWIG #TCMParty

This is worse than going down the Zambezi with a nutty, Bible thumping old spinster #IKWIG #TCMParty

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No clue! #TCMParty #IKWIG

Wedding dress is lost in the storm! #IKWIG #TCMParty

Hmm, about that one unfaithful maiden . . . #TCMParty #IKWIG

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Seems like wind and waves must also symbolize something he’s feeling, but just can’t figure it out. #IKWIG #TCMParty