Professor's film to air this month on PBS
James Madison University media arts and design Professor Tom
O’Connor’s 90-minute documentary film on British author Graham Greene will air nationally
on PBS stations this month.
Member station WVPT in Harrisonburg will show “Dangerous
Edge: A Life of Graham Greene” beginning Friday, March 29, at 10:30 p.m.
“Dangerous Edge” is the first American-produced documentary
on Greene, a manic-depressive
whose literary career spanned seven decades. Greene wrote in nearly every
conceivable form, including novels (“The Quiet American,” “The End of the
Affair”), travel books, plays, screenplays and essays. He was also a British
spy during World War II and later became one of the world’s most
respected foreign correspondents, covering events such as Kenya’s Mau Mau
Rebellion and the French Indochina War.
The film uses the author’s own words
from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many
films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the 20th
century.
British actor Sir Derek Jacobi, who appeared in three
feature films adapted from Greene’s books, serves as narrator, and actor Bill
Nighy (“Love
Actually,” “Pirate Radio”) provides the voice of the author. The
documentary also includes interviews with Greene scholars as well as fellow
writers, critics and spies.
O’Connor and his crew, which included Ken Burns
cinematographer Allen Moore, shot on location in London, Washington, New York,
Los Angeles, Vienna and Geneva, Switzerland, Greene’s final resting place.
JMU’s School of Media Arts and
Design will host a free screening of “Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham
Greene” at Court Square Theater in downtown Harrisonburg at 3 p.m. Sunday,
March 24.
For more information, visit http://www.jmu.edu/news/2012/07/19-graham-greene-documentary.shtml
or http://smad.jmu.edu/oconnor.html.
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March 22, 2013
