Saving Mr. Banks tells the story of Walt Disney’s crass and culturally clueless attempts to persuade Mrs. PL Travers, the very English (but actually Australian) author of Mary Poppins, to turn her book into a Disney film. Now Missiz (that’s an inside joke) was a woman who was notoriously close to her subject, and a…
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It was back in the eighties, watching Educating Rita for the first time, that I knew I wanted to be in the film business. There’s a small scene where Michael Caine, the drunken professor, is clearing out the bookshelves of his office, and behind every batch of books there’s an empty booze bottle. Bam! That…
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