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.

Using the small scale production resources of TV, Mike Hodges puts together the account of the over confidant lead, who underestimates the powerful group that gets his car into the back of a semi. A brief coda with kids and the tape recorder in a city dump is an unlikely note of hope in the grim proceedings.

The small cast do well, with a large part of the ending a two hander. The choice of angles, pacing and interpretation are an indicator of Hodges substantial career to come in feature films. The mood foreshadows his GET CARTER and the feeble I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD.

Director: Mike Hodges
Writers: Mike Hodges
Cast: Michael Coles,Ronald Clarke,Mary Baxter
Producer: Mike Hodges, Lloyd Shirley
Cinematography: Dusty Miller
Production Company: Thames Television
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 25mn

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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?

Director: Guy Hamilton
Writers: Lesley Storm, Val Valentine, Edgar Wallace
Cast: Herbert Lom, Donald Wolfit, Mai Zetterling
Producer: Hugh Perceval
Cinematography: Edward Scaife
Music: Malcolm Arnold
Production Company: London Films Productions
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 18mn

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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.

Director: David Dawkins, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
Cast: Andrew Fletcher,Dave Gahan,Martin Gore
Producer: Frazer Pennebaker
Production Company: Mute Film, Pennebaker Associates Inc.
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 2h 00mn

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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.

“Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time” is a documentary that opened in San Francisco in mid-2002 and just kept running, moving from one theater to another, finding its audience not so much through word of mouth as through hand on elbow, as friends steered friends into the theater, telling them that this was a movie they had to see. I started getting e-mails about it months ago. Had I seen it? I hadn’t even heard of it.

It is a film about a man wholly absorbed in the moment. He wanders woods and riverbanks, finding materials and playing with them, fitting them together, piling them up, weaving them, creating beautiful arrangements that he photographs before they return to chaos. He knows that you can warm the end of an icicle just enough to make it start to melt, and then hold it against another icicle, and it will stick. With that knowledge, he makes an ice sculpture, and then it melts in the sun and is over.

Some of his constructions are of magical beauty, as if left behind by beings who disappeared before the dawn. He finds a way to arrange twigs in a kind of web. He makes a spiral of rocks that fans out from a small base and then closes in again, a weight on top holding it together. This is not easy, and he gives us pointers: “Top control can be the death of a work.” Often Andy will be … almost there … right on the edge … holding his breath as one last piece goes into place … and then the whole construction will collapse, and he will look deflated, defeated, for a moment (“Damn!”), and then start again: “When I build something, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that’s a very beautiful balance.” His art needs no explanation. We go into modern art galleries and find work we cannot comprehend as art. We see Damien Hurst’s sheep, cut down the middle and embedded in plastic, and we cannot understand how it won the Turner Prize (forgetting that no one thought Turner was making art, either). We suppose that Concepts and Statements are involved.

But with Andy Goldsworthy, not one word of explanation is necessary, because every single one of us has made something like his art. We have piled stones or made architectural constructions out of sand, or played Pick-Up Stix, and we know exactly what he is trying to do–and why. Yes, why, because his art takes him into that Zone where time drops away and we forget our left-brain concerns and are utterly absorbed by whether this … could go like this … without the whole thing falling apart.

The documentary, directed, photographed and edited by Thomas Riedelsheimer, a German filmmaker, goes home with Goldsworthy to Penpont, Scotland, where we see him spending some time with his wife and kids. It follows him to a museum in the South of France, and to an old stone wall in Canada that he wants to rebuild in his own way. It visits with him old stone markers high in mountains, built by early travelers to mark the path.

And it offers extraordinary beauty. We watch as he smashes stones to release their cyan content and uses that bright-red dye to make spectacular patterns in the currents and whirlpools of streams. We see a long rope of linked leaves, bright green, uncoil as it floats downstream. Before, we saw only the surface of the water, but now the movement of the leaves reveals its current and structure. What a happy man. Watching this movie is like daydreaming.

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Writers: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Cast: Andy Goldsworthy, Anna Goldsworthy, Holly Goldsworthy
Producer: Leslie Hills, Trevor Davies, Annedore von Donop
Cinematography: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Music: Fred Frith
Production Company: YLE, Mediopolis Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Skyline Productions, WDR
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 30mn

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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.

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Writers: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Cast: Andy Goldsworthy, Holly Goldsworthy
Producer: Stefan Tolz, Leslie Hills, John Caulkins,
Cinematography: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Production Company: Skyline, Productions Filmpunkt
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 37mn

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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.

Director: William Keighley
Writers: Herb Meadow, Harold Medford, Robert Louis Stevenson
Cast: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel
Cinematography: Jack Cardiff
Music: William Alwyn
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 30mn

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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.

Director: Ronald Neame
Writers: Alec Guinness, Joyce Cary
Cast: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston,
Producer: John Bryan, Ronald Neame
Cinematography: Arthur Ibbetson
Music: Kenneth V. Jones
Production Company: Knightsbridge Films
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 37mn

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