In an Escher-like staircase, two characters, a man a woman, move around each other, in full view of the bizarre objects in the space: an infinite clock, a miniature surveillance camera, the hose of a vacuum cleaner. The camera always chooses a subjective point of view, namely from the vantage point of one of the objects or characters, who lose themselves in a game of attraction or repulsion. A surreal universe.Read More »
It’s pretty much about these kids whose relative comes over to take care of them. She turns out to be rather cruel to them and they end up accidentally murdering her, and they have to dispose of her body in the woodchipper. Afterward, a related family member of her shows up and the craziness really picks up!Read More »
A drama set around the terrifying Brixton riots of 1981 and how the civil riots affected the lives of a group of people living there is the subject of the Play for Today episode Hard Feelings.
The action centres on a house shared by four Oxford graduates – girls Viv and Jane, and their male companions Rusty and Baz.Read More »
Written by Rose Tremain
Camilla is a mid-thirties woman whose world is collapsing around her, with an unexciting marriage, a daughter with whom she cannot communicate, and a neurotic mother facing a shoplifting charge.
Just when she feels she cannot cope any longer, a little bit of her past catches up with her again.
Liam is her former lover, and an English lecturer at college. He sends her a letter and so begins a series of events which help her to begin to rebuild her life and create some hope for her future.Read More »
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The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke’s chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction. Inspired by a true story, the director’s first theatrical feature finds him fully in command of his style, observing with clinical detachment the spiritual emptiness of consumer culture—and the horror that lurks beneath its placid surfaces. The Seventh Continent builds to an annihilating encounter with the televisual void that powerfully synthesizes Haneke’s ideas about the link between violence and our culture of manufactured emotion.Read More »
Patrick Duffy, Cindy Pickett and Brian Keith star in this atmospheric and eerie TV movie from 1982 based on the book by horror author John Saul.
Spoiler free synopsis:
“The little coastal town of Clark’s Harbour seems like the perfect place for psychiatrist Brad Russell and his wife to get a little peace and spend more time with each other. But the locals don’t seem very friendly and every time a storm rolls in another mysterious death occurs…”Read More »
Fact based story of John A. Walker, Jr., a Navy chief petty officer with access to top secret cryptographic communications. As a result of mounting debts, he sold secrets to the Soviets in 1967, a practice that he continued thereafter. He further sought to involve his four children into the espionage until his wife caught onto his activities.Read More »
Glasgow Evening Times, 14 Feb 1984 wrote:
The play from the novel of the play…
The special satisfaction John Wain will feel tonight from the screening of his play Young Shoulders (BBC1, 21:40) springs from the fact that its appearance on the small screen puts his work right back where it started.
Young Shoulders, the first in a new series of Play for Today, began life in John’s fertile imagination as an idea for a television play but grew into a superb novel which won the 1982 Whitbread Prize.
Now it’s back in its original context, and a stirring drama it makes.Read More »
