Springsteen impressions and Angie Bowie’s coke dealer: ‘Absolute Beginners’
❉ The story behind David Bowie’s #2 hit single ‘Absolute Beginners’, released 35 years ago this month.
KEN LOACH
‘Threads’ Special Edition DVD reviewed
❉ Don Klees reviews the special edition DVD release of “the boldest science-fiction film of all time”.
‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ (DVD/Blu-ray) reviewed
❉ A brutal, witty, slice of social realism that deconstructs Thatcherism, identity and the notion of society.
CultFilms announce Visconti and De Sica titles new to Blu-ray
❉ CultFilms is set to release newly remastered versions of two world cinema classics from two of the world’s finest filmmakers.
Generation wrecks: ‘T2: Trainspotting 2’ reviewed
❉ “Choose living in the past because the future is broken”
Kicking against the pricks: The British New Wave
❉ How the cinematic left-hook of the British New Wave created a cultural earthquake, with its raw, brutal realism.
Richard Stanley’s ‘Dust Devil’ and the changing face of Film4
❉ We revisit Richard Stanley’s ‘Dust Devil’ and look at its place in Film4’s history.