Timmy Lea
15-08-2008, 09:26 PM
Right!! This is the last thread I'm starting tonight and then I'm getting out of this pub. I haven't bought a drink since about 7 pm, and I'm only getting away with this because the barman's one of me mates.
I recently watched this film, which I had been longing to see for some time, after a friend acquired a copy via Mr Mills' website, and I have to say it didn't dissappoint. Every bit as realist and stark as BRONCO BULLFROG, but with the added bonus of actors you actually recognise and like (Bruce Robinson, Susan Penhaligon, Michael Feast, Kathleen Byron)
Very much the kind of film one hears about via various cult websites and psychedelic parties, oft discussed in almost hushed reverential tones, it could be seen as a film about not very much (a young writer and his girlfriend struggling to find employment, not getting on with her parents, pissing off to Scotland for a bit and then coming back to London only to find out their best mate's become a junkie) but I'm starting to realise that this is very much Platts-Mills' milieu.
In real life there are no resolutions, happy or unhappy endings, or things that lead to conclusions that make 100 percent linear sense- just a series of events we go through on a daily basis. In other words, it's not like the movies. But Platts-Mills' films are like life, and he depicts it beautifully. That said, even the miserablest of 60s and 70s scenarios on celluloid seem to my eyes more appealing than reality in the Noughties. I warned you I was a bit odd like that. My only concern is- I can't seem to get rid of the subtitles!! Whatever button I press they're still there. And for some reason the swearwords seem to have been edited (maybe the only print left?)
There's a fantastic score too, consisiting of songs by Feast and Robinson's flatmate of the time, David 'Jeans On' Dundas, the Marquis of Zetland. Sadly, the music in this pub is nowhere near as good- the last covers band were AWFUL!! I'm ouuta here, see you all tomorrow!!
Actually, they've finished now and Ministry has just come on the jukebox/ MP3/ whatever, but I'm STILL going home. I'm famished.
I recently watched this film, which I had been longing to see for some time, after a friend acquired a copy via Mr Mills' website, and I have to say it didn't dissappoint. Every bit as realist and stark as BRONCO BULLFROG, but with the added bonus of actors you actually recognise and like (Bruce Robinson, Susan Penhaligon, Michael Feast, Kathleen Byron)
Very much the kind of film one hears about via various cult websites and psychedelic parties, oft discussed in almost hushed reverential tones, it could be seen as a film about not very much (a young writer and his girlfriend struggling to find employment, not getting on with her parents, pissing off to Scotland for a bit and then coming back to London only to find out their best mate's become a junkie) but I'm starting to realise that this is very much Platts-Mills' milieu.
In real life there are no resolutions, happy or unhappy endings, or things that lead to conclusions that make 100 percent linear sense- just a series of events we go through on a daily basis. In other words, it's not like the movies. But Platts-Mills' films are like life, and he depicts it beautifully. That said, even the miserablest of 60s and 70s scenarios on celluloid seem to my eyes more appealing than reality in the Noughties. I warned you I was a bit odd like that. My only concern is- I can't seem to get rid of the subtitles!! Whatever button I press they're still there. And for some reason the swearwords seem to have been edited (maybe the only print left?)
There's a fantastic score too, consisiting of songs by Feast and Robinson's flatmate of the time, David 'Jeans On' Dundas, the Marquis of Zetland. Sadly, the music in this pub is nowhere near as good- the last covers band were AWFUL!! I'm ouuta here, see you all tomorrow!!
Actually, they've finished now and Ministry has just come on the jukebox/ MP3/ whatever, but I'm STILL going home. I'm famished.