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George Case – Seesaw (1999)

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After their daughter’s kidnapping, the Prices are forced to sell everything, but their new life as a working class family proves difficult.

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Robert Knights – Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man (1980)

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Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man (1980)

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A thoroughly superb four-part comedy-drama series, The History Man is considered a pivotal literary and television work and one of the most fondly-remembered of all Malcolm Bradbury’s output.

Bradbury had always prided himself on stories concerning, criticising and critiquing academic culture and the proliferation of “new” university campuses which were dotted across the United Kingdom at the time. The History Man featured one such “new” educational establishment, the University of Watermouth, as the platform for the tale of Barbara and Howard Kirk (Geraldine James and Anthony Sher), an exploration of their very modern marriage and considerably radical political views.

However, this was essentially the starting-point of the series, which branched out into an acerbic observation of the complexities of academic life, ranging from tedious meetings to bureaucratic nightmares, bizarre workplace relations to corruption at its height and disruption at its base. An attractive and compelling story of radical student life, the Machiavellian powers-that-be within student life and within the educational organisation itself, the essential dramatic drive manisfested itself through Howard Kirk, a sociology lecturer at Watermouth not averse to using the tools of his trade (namely sex and politics) to secure his own position within the establishment and, indeed, further it to some extent.
He lectures students to become far more radical and less complacent, whilst all the time working tirelessly to ensure his own position remains unchanged.

The series became an examination on the abuses and power within an organisation fundamentally concerned with ridiculous micro-management (as portrayed in tedious meetings about nothing in particular), and Kirk soon finds himself fighting for his own survival and using his students, his political rhetoric and his sexual magnetism to ensure that he emerges triumphant in a power struggle with his back-biting colleagues.

The novel upon which the series was based, which earned Bradbury the Heinemann Award alongside the television commission, proved a lengthy read of purple prose (of which the writer himself was critically acclaimed), was and still is considered the definitive article, yet under the adaptation of Christopher Hampton, the production of experienced hand Michael Wearing and directorial expertise of Robert Knights, the series proved to be one of BBC Television’s most high-profile products throughout the early 1980s.

The series boasted notable supporting performances from the likes of Isla Blair, Laura Davenport, Maggie Steed, Miriam Margolyes, Zienia Merton and Peter Hugo Daly. The series was globally exported, but the limit of its commercial release was Malcolm Bradbury’s best-selling novel upon which the series was based. The History Man series has never been commercially available in any format.

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Jim O’Brien – Rebecca (1997)

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Adapted from the gothic romance by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca is a Classic tale of love and hate. Maxim De Winter (Charles Dance) marries a woman half his age (Emilia Fox) only a year after his first wife, the beautiful and accomplished Rebecca, dies.

Maxim’s shy bride finds herself in an aristocratic social world her middle class upbringing did not prepare her for. The housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers (Diana Rigg) worsens the situation as she despises her for taking her darling Rebecca’s place.

These are not the only problems to face, behind the beautiful gates of Manderley there is a darkness of the past that taints the present and threatens the future.

	
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Jim O’Brien & Christopher Morahan – The Jewel in the Crown (1984)

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The Jewel in the Crown (1984) is a British television serial about the final days of the British Raj in India during World War II, based upon the Raj Quartet novels by Paul Scott.
Granada Television produced it for the ITV network.

IMDB:
The British Raj: though their position seems secure, thoughtful English men and women know that “their” time in India is coming to an end. The story begins with an unjust arrest for rape, and the consequences of this echo through the series. Questions of identity and personal responsibility are explored against a background of war and personal intrigue.

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Andrew Haigh – 45 Years (2015)

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Plot
Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) and her husband Geoff (Tom Courtenay) had to cancel the party for their 40th anniversary at short notice when Geoff underwent bypass surgery. The comfortably off, left-wing, childless, provincial couple now have a week to go before a replacement party to celebrate their 45th anniversary. Theoretically, this week should just involve planning, dress purchasing and a bit of social fretting. This is not to be: shattering news arrives for Geoff from the Swiss authorities, explaining that the perfectly preserved body of his ex-girlfriend, Katya, has been found, 50 years after she slipped into an Alpine crevasse. From the moment the news is received Kate can ‘smell Katya’s perfume in the room’ and her perspective on their marriage changes forever. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

A gently devastating snapshot of a loving yet subtly fractured relationship in its twilight years, Andrew Haigh’s wonderfully performed 45 Years is an elegant and restrained film that dwells on how an apparently happy union can be tormented by an echo from the past. Delicate, thoughtful and moving, the film cements Haigh’s reputation as one of the leading lights of British cinema, with him drawing out award-deserving performances from his veteran leads Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. (by Mark Adams)

About
45 Years is a 2015 British drama film directed and written by Andrew Haigh. The film is based on the short story In Another Country by David Constantine.[3] The film was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. Charlotte Rampling won the Silver Bear for Best Actress and Tom Courtenay won the Silver Bear for Best Actor.

It was selected to be screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and also screened at the 2015 Telluride Festival.[6] It was released in the United Kingdom on 28 August 2015. The film was released in the United States by Sundance Selects on 23 December 2015.

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