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  • Kim Evans – Omnibus: Don Delillo -The Word, the Image, the Gun (1991)

    1991-2000DocumentaryExperimentalKim EvansUnited Kingdom

    Revolutions, natural disasters, toxic fall-out, plane crashes – these are all part of the running picture of news against which America’s leading novelist, Don DeLillo , sets his fiction. In this film, as in his novels, DeLillo pinpoints the deep unease beneath the surface of our lives. The film begins with the assassination of President Kennedy and the politics of violence it brought to television screens for the first time. It goes on to look at the way the media has continued to feed its audience images of disaster and terror: massacres in great public squares, disasters in football stadiums, and dramatic acts of terrorism. DeLillo explores the relationship between words and images, and between gunmen and the novelist.Read More »

  • Robert Fuest – The Final Programme AKA The Last Days of Man on Earth (1973)

    Robert Fuest1971-1980CultSci-FiUnited Kingdom
    The future is cancelled!

    A trio of scientists plan to create a self-replicating, immortal, hermaphrodite using the Final Programme developed by a dead, Nobel Prize-winning scientist.Read More »

  • Derek Jarman – Jubilee (1978)

    1971-1980CultDerek JarmanDramaQueer Cinema(s)United Kingdom

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    Punks hail Britannia in their own peculiar way in this little-seen gem by the late queer auteur

    Jubilee (1978), Britain’s only decent punk film, still isn’t respected at home as much as it should be, and it remains pretty obscure everywhere else. Instead, we had to wait for Trainspotting (1996) to represent some sort of renaissance in “cool” British cinema. Yet, even though it is almost 20 years older, Jubilee makes Trainspotting’s self-congratulatory, CD tie-in antics look like a polite Edinburgh garden party.Read More »

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