Sir-I’'d like to tell you how much I appreciate your weekly film reviews. They are the first of their kind in New Zealand, Still greater is my appreciation of the controversies which you ine sert from time to time in your film section. Such controversies can educate the picturegoer to view pictures with a certain amount of criticism and to see their shortcomings and merits, This should eventually have a beneficial influence even on the motion picture industry. I expect you’ve read the review about Mrs. Miniver in Punch. If not, you'll find these remarks of a London reviewer interesting,
F.
BONDY
Ph D (Wellington
(We thank our correspondent, and reproduce here the main part of Punch’s review: "Miss Jan Struther’s Minivers are, or ought to be, a typical English upper-middle class family, united and affectionate, easy-going in easy times, resourceful and enduring in hard. It was a good idea to make a film out of their experiences in their village home near London during the month$ from Dunkirk to the Battle of Britain, and the idea has been carried out with great tact and skill . ... The film is excellently played throughout, The chief parts could hardly be bettered."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 192, 26 February 1943, Page 3
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