![]() ![]() ![]() On the West Coast we see a San Francisco that has been suffused with influences from pre-war Japan, from the billboards and signage to the homes and offices of Japanese leaders, hybrids of traditional Japanese architecture and Northern California Modern (which was itself influenced by Japan.) The Man In The High Castle. In New York, wives of top Nazis in starched dresses hold tea parties and drive big period cars filled with perfect Aryan children while their husbands plot global domination – and inter-party machinations – in penthouses with views onto Manhattan skyscrapers now decked with swastikas and steeped in Speer-esque gloom. Then you find yourself in an America divided into three parts: the Nazi-controlled “Eastern United States” the “Pacific States of America” (P.S.A.) on the West ruled by the Imperial Japanese and the middle Neutral Zone, or Rocky Mountains States, a kind of Wild West inhabited by society’s outcasts and resistant fighters on the run from both regimes, such as lead characters Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos) and Frank Frink (Rupert Evans).Įach of these universes have been rendered in minute detail and intense atmospherics by production designer Drew Boughton and team. It opens with a title sequence by Elastic, sweeping through imagery of a world in which Germany has invented Concorde and dropped the first atom bomb, set to a haunting rendition of Edelweiss. Production Design by Drew Boughtonīut the main reason for watching The Man in The High Castle is that it is stunning, from the acting - topped by Rufus Sewell as the dangerously alluring American Nazi Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith - to the art direction. Executively produced by Frank Spotnitz and Ridley Scott and now in its third season on Amazon Prime, The Hollywood Reporter has called the show, “by far the best and most consistently ominous drama of the Trump era.” The Man In The High Castle. Dick novel that bears a fascinating resonance with our current troubled times. That’s the premise of The Man in The High Castle, the adaptation of the 1962 Philip K. What would happen if Fascism had won in 1945 and the Axis powers controlled the world? This week our Must Watch is a series chosen by design expert and broadcaster Frances Anderton, host of DnA: Design and Architecture on the highly respected, California-based KCRW Radio. Must Watch! The Man in The High Castle chosen by Frances AndertonĮach week we ask a respected film or furniture expert to recommend a film or series that should be on all our ‘To Watch’ lists.
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