Moments (1974 film)

1974 British film by Peter Crane

Moments

Theatrical release poster

Directed by| Peter Crane
Written by| Michael Sloan
Produced by| Peter Crane
David M. Jackson
Michael Sloan
Starring| Keith Michell
Angharad Rees
Bill Fraser
Cinematography| Wolfgang Suschitzky
Edited by| Roy Watts
Music by| John Cameron

Production
company

Pemini Organisation

Distributed by| Columbia-Warner Distributors

Release date

* 21 November 1974 (1974-11-21)

Running time

| 102 minutes
Country| United Kingdom
Language| English

Moments is a 1974 British drama film directed by Peter Crane and starring Keith Michell, Angharad Rees and Bill Fraser.[1][2] The screenplay concerns a man who has lost his wife and daughter in a car crash who returns to a hotel where he had once enjoyed happiness.

## Cast

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* Keith Michell as Peter Samuelson
* Angharad Rees as Chrissy
* Bill Fraser as Mr. Fleming
* Keith Bell as John
* Jeanette Sterke as Mrs. Samuelson
* Donald Hewlett as Mr. Samuelson
* Valerie Minifie as Peter's wife
* Paul Michell as young Peter
* Helena Michell as Peter's friend

## Critical reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "[The film's] conceptually avant-garde characteristics come over not as Borgesian strategies interrogating the very notion of 'reality', but as slick pirouettes prevented from spinning too far outside the confines of a saccharine, woman's magazine-style story ... director Peter Crane has characters move in and out of focus, into and out of frame, like the grey figures which haunt their memories. But such stylistic metaphors fail to excuse the essentially adolescent, wish-fulfilment nature of the entire Peter-Chrissy relationship. To the apologist who argues that this is precisely the point (the tawdry, beleaguered imaginings of a desperate man), one is tempted to answer that the film's title also was a clever intimation of just how much – or how little – is left to anchor one's interest."[3]

## Home media

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Moments was released on the Blu-ray The Pemini Organisation (1972–1974) (Powerhouse Films, 2022) with two other films also directed by Peter Crane and written by Michael Sloan: Hunted (1972) and Assassin (1973).

## References

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1. ^ "Moments". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
2. ^ BFI.org
3. ^ "Moments". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 41 (480): 253. 1 January 1974. ProQuest 1305840673.

## External links

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* Moments at IMDb
* Moments on Blu-ray at Powerhouse Films