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  • Tony Smith – Tutti Frutti [+ Extras] (1987)

    Drama1981-1990BBCTony SmithTVUnited Kingdom

    Legendary Scots rock ‘n’ roll outfit The Majestics find themselves in trouble on the eve of their 25th anniversary tour when their singer, Big Jazza, is killed in a car crash. But with the appearance of his younger brother, Danny, their problems appear to be over. If only it was that easy…

    Rock and roll mythologises itself as a rejuvenating rebel music, an image embodied by the Rolling Stones, who claim the music keeps them fired up and excited despite their advancing years. However, entry into the ranks of rock and roll originals has failed to bestow the same energising favours on The Majestics, Scotland’s very own (fictional) survivors of the 1960s beat boom.Read More »

  • Elijah Moshinsky – Cymbeline (1982)

    1981-1990BBCDramaElijah MoshinskyTVUnited KingdomWilliam Shakespeare

    Starring Dame Helen Lydia Mirren

    Elijah Moshinsky directed the BBC Television Shakespeare adaptation in 1982, ignoring the ancient British period setting in favour of a more timeless and snow-laden atmosphere inspired by Rembrandt and his contemporary Dutch painters. Richard Johnson, Claire Bloom, Helen Mirren, and Robert Lindsay play Cymbeline, his Queen, Imogen, and Iachimo, respectively, with Michael Pennington as Posthumus.Read More »

  • Alan Yentob – Arena: The Orson Welles Story (1982)

    1981-1990Alan YentobBBCDocumentaryOrson WellesUnited Kingdom

    Plot
    Two-part profile of actor-director Orson Welles, looking at his life and career in theatre, radio and particularly film.Read More »

  • Paul Bradshaw – Tutankhamun in Colour (2020)

    2011-2020BBCDocumentaryPaul BradshawUnited Kingdom

    BBC Four Website Description
    A century after the world’s most exciting archaeological find – the tomb of Tutankhamun – we can witness the dramatic scenes of its discovery and marvel at its extraordinary treasures exactly as they were first seen – in colour.

    Oxford University Egyptologist, Elizabeth Frood, is our guide to the discovery of the tomb on 4 November 1922 by British Egyptologist Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon. It provided much-needed good news, following the Great War and the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1919, and we have been transfixed ever since.Read More »

  • Alexander Leith – Age of the Image (2020)

    2011-2020Alexander LeithBBCDocumentaryUnited Kingdom

    From the Introduction
    Every age is said to have its genius. The 18th century is often called the age of philosophy. The 19th century is the age of the novel. But our own age is undoubtedly an age of the image.

    Other periods had images, of course, but, in the last 100 years or so, we made more images than ever before, and they have changed not just what we see, but how we see.

    This was an era that rewrote the rules of image making. Beaming pictures into our homes, manipulating them, making the impossible visible and, in the digital age, revealing them in eye-opening detail.Read More »

  • Michael A. Simpson – The Browning Version (1985)

    1981-1990BBCDramaMichael A. SimpsonTVUnited Kingdom

    Andrew Crocker-Harris is an aging classics master at a British public school with only a few days left in his career but who is suddenly forced to confront his own life’s failures. Starring Judi Dench, Michael Kitchen, John Woodvine, Ian Holm. Directed by Michael A. Simpson. Originally broadcast December 31, 1985.Read More »

  • Anthony Page – Middlemarch [+Extra] (1994)

    1991-2000Anthony PageBBCDramaTVUnited Kingdom

    about this production

    This classic BBC TV production, is a dramatisation of George Eliot’s novel: set at the cusp of the Industrial Revolution, the story chronicles the life, loves, foibles, and politics of the fictional English town of Middlemarch. The plot centres on the socially-conscious, but naive, Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey), whose disastrous match to the pedantic Reverend Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide) sets in motion a chain of events that will change the face of Middlemarch forever. The efforts of the dashing young physician Tertius Lydgate (Douglas Hodge) to modernise the medical practices at the new hospital causes quite a stir, both in the political power structure, headed by the evil Mr. Nicholas Bulstrode (Peter Jeffrey), and the heart of sweet Rosamund Vincy (Trevyn McDowell), the town beauty. Smaller plots interweave the action and lead to reconciliation, resignation, remuneration, and resolution.Read More »

  • Ken Russell – Lady Chatterley (1993)

    1991-2000BBCKen RussellRomanceTVUnited Kingdom

    Lady Chatterley is a 1993 BBC television serial starring Sean Bean and Joely Richardson. It is an adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, first broadcast on BBC1 in four 55-minute episodes between 6 and 27 June 1993. A young woman’s husband returns wounded after the First World War. Facing a life with a husband now incapable of sexual activity she begins an affair with the groundskeeper. The film reflect’s Lawrence’s focus not only on casting away sexual taboos but also the examination of the class system prevalent in early 20th century Britain.Read More »

  • Tom Brook – Talking Movies: Pandemic Special (2020)

    2011-2020BBCDocumentaryTom BrookUnited Kingdom


    This is a snapshot of the global state of the movie industry with a special feature on fims about pandemics and a look at what’s available to stream online “beyond the mainstream”.Read More »

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