Early work from Mike Hodges — the film that got him the gig of directing GET CARTER. A gritty, docu-style conspiracy drama reeking of London 70s grime and atmos.
Superior TV drama, 4 April 2009
Author: Mozjoukine from Australia
The remarkably adept paranoia thriller actually had the qualities which were proclaimed for British TV at the time – often without justification.Read More »
The Ringer’ is an elusive criminal, reported dead in Australia but now thought to be alive in London. Scotland Yard know the Ringer had left his sister in the care of unscrupulous lawyer Maurice Meister and that she was later found drowned, so they warn Meister that the Ringer is in London. A police guard is set up around his house and, surrounded by burglar alarms, he waits for further news; no intruder could possibly enter. As tension mounts, it seems increasingly clear that the Ringer is one of the people in the close circle around Meister… but which one?Read More »
A groundbreaking collaborative documentary, 101 was co-directed by acclaimed husband-and-wife filmmaking team D.A. Pennebaker (Dont Look Back) and Chris Hegedus (The War Room) with active creative input from Depeche Mode, who’d held an exclusive contest for fans offering an appearance in a Depeche Mode movie as the prize. 101’s narrative through-line of contest winners traveling across America to attend Depeche Mode’s landmark Rose Bowl concert is a cinematic precursor to the youth culture trend in “reality tv” programming. Depeche Mode’s 101 captures the electrifying synergy between the band and their fans.Read More »
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Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.
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“The very thing that brought the thing to be is the thing that will cause its death,” Goldsworthy explains, as his elegant, spiraled constructions once again become random piles of stones on the beach. As with Andy’s stones, so with our lives.Read More »
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Leaning into the Wind follows artist Andy Goldsworthy on his exploration of the world and himself through ephemeral and permanent workings on the landscape, cities and with his own body.Read More »
Two noble Scottish brothers deliberately take opposite sides when Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to claim the throne of Scotland in order to preserve the family fortune.Read More »
An ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.Read More »
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Written by the Liverpool socialist, Jimmy McGovern, Sunday tells the story of the events of January 30th, 1972 when British Paratroopers shot dead 13 unarmed civilians, and wounded a further 15, during an illegal civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland. The day which went on to become known as ‘Bloody Sunday’.Read More »
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A modest but intelligent and extremely effective adaptation of John Wyndham’s novel The Midwich Cuckoos, about a small English village which mysteriously and inexplicably succumbs to a 24-hour trance-like sleep, after which the womenfolk all discover that they are pregnant. The alien children, strangely alike in appearance, prove to be endowed with telepathic and kinetic powers…You don’t get much explanation, and the overall plot may not withstand detailed analysis. But the atmosphere and pace are superbly handled, and the performances of the sinister, inhumanly intelligent ‘children’ never falter. The allegorical possibilities (generation gap?) are there, but they don’t get in the way.Read More »