Plot:
Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

	
baal.1970.720p.bluray.x264-pussyfoot.mkv

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Subtitles:English

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Diabetic Horace is mentally impaired and works in a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy, Gordon Blackett who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world.

Horace.mkv

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Alan Clarke’s 1975 Playhouse drama Diane is a deeply bleak and unsettling account of incest between a father (Frank Mills) and his daughter, the titular character played by that great character actress Janine Duvitski in her TV debut.

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Depiction of the everyday life of a teenage heroin addict.

Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one peer-aged client to another during the deserted daytime of the suburbs.

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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In a play drawn from his non-fiction book of the same name, David Yallop combines dramatic reconstruction with direct documentary address to detail the miscarriage of justice which led to the hanging of Derek Bentley in 1953.

The tense opening film sequence shows 16-year-old Christopher Craig’s shoot-out with police, during which PC Sidney Miles is shot dead. Craig’s 19-year-old friend Derek Bentley is unarmed and placidly under arrest throughout. In court, however, both are found guilty of murder; Craig is too young to receive the death sentence but Bentley, despite widespread protests, is hanged. Yallop uncovers serious judicial failings, and denies that Bentley incited Craig, or that he ever said the famous phrase “let him have it, Chris”.

Unlike Peter Medak’s film on the same subject, “Let Him Have It” (1991), Yallop’s play concentrates on the trial, using official transcripts. In the courtroom scenes, Alan Clarke’s claustrophobic visual style is inventive, despite the technical and time restrictions of multi-camera studio recording. His style emphasises the crucial theme of vicarious activity: the jurors who are often framed in the foreground of shots of Craig and Bentley are just looking-on, like Bentley on the Croydon rooftop and the Establishment who oversee Bentley’s judicial murder as a brutal warning to juvenile delinquents.

Following the verdict, the drama gives way to a documentary voice-over which details the failures of the legal process, including invented confessions, vital evidence which was never presented and a failure to provide for Bentley’s mental deficiencies which restricted his ability to contribute to his own defence. Furthermore, Clarke’s ambiguous framing of gunshots in the opening sequence hints that Miles was accidentally shot by another policeman, but this point from Yallop’s book was cut from the play after a pathologist disapproved of Yallop’s use of his testimony.

The Bentley family’s doomed struggle for a reprieve is powerfully reconstructed, as are Bentley’s last days in his death cell. Clarke then presents Bentley’s hanging in a sequence which is graphic but also visually inventive, emphasising the impersonal judicial process through isolated shots of feet and the anonymous hands which carry out the act.

Yallop’s book and play were welcomed by Bentley’s family and provoked questions in Parliament, but, even after a 1991 repeat in a Clarke tribute season, seemed unsuccessful in clearing Bentley’s name. In July 1998, however, Bentley was belatedly granted a full pardon.

Dave Rolinson

To Encourage the Others.mkv

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This is the original version made for the BBC but banned by them and never screened until 15 years later. The BBC said that they banned it because “There was too much incident packed into too short a time and that they doubted the veracity.” So they thought it was pure fiction. But they also said that it “looked too much like a documentary.”

A brutal depiction of life in the borstal system where order is maintained through violence and intimidation. Carlin’s journey up the pecking order from new boy to ‘Daddy’ earns him the respect of inmates and officers alike.

Scum was originally made for the BBC’s Play for Today series in 1977. Deemed too controversial by BBC management, it was effectively banned from broadcast until 1991, a year after director Alan Clarke’s death, when it was finally screened on Channel Four as part of a season on the theme of censorship.

The brutality that shocked the BBC and prevented Scum from being broadcast is precisely what makes it such an important work. In what was to become Clarke’s trademark approach to tackling contentious social issues, he and writer Roy Minton decided the best way to critique the violence inherent in the borstal system was simply to show it. While few would doubt that the bullying, rioting and rape depicted in the play does take place within such institutions, the oft repeated criticism of Scum is that it depicts these events happening within a relatively short space of time, leaving the play open to accusations of melodrama.

1.04GB | 1h 14m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F89F359E88C90D8/Scum.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English HoH

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Road, Christine, Contact, and the documentary on Clarke “Alan Clarke directs.” I have these on a single dvd compilation disc, and so am upping them here as a single dvd -r rather than as separate avis. I’m told the versions of these upped already on this site are not great and hopefully these will be better. They deserve to be seen in the best form possible — criminally, they’re not in distribution.

https://nitro.download/view/0EFCAC474654F9A/clarke.part1.rar https://nitro.download/view/E6E7528B1E69D04/clarke.part2.rar https://nitro.download/view/6366195D1376310/clarke.part3.rar https://nitro.download/view/7947381D011A2C3/clarke.part4.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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