Tag: 1970s

• Alan Clarke’s DIANE (1975) and the Guilty Austerities of Post-Imperial British Realism 

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  by Daniel E. Smith Released in 1975 through BBC2’s Playhouse teleplay anthology, Diane remains a relatively underseen work in Alan Clarke’s filmography. This may in some part be due to the undeniable bleakness of the teleplay’s subject matter, focusing on incest and rape and how one (namely, the titular Diane) learns to deal with them…

  

• ‘The Decade Taste Forgot’ – An Analysis of Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

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  by Billy Butler (Sister Jeanne – played by Vanessa Redgrave – at the feet of Oliver Reed’s Urbain Grandier in a religious vision reminiscent of Mary Magdalene at Jesus’ feet. The Devils, 1971, Dir. Ken Russell) Film is a powerful medium. It has the ability to affect our lives – the power to inspire us,…

  

• AN AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE IN LONDON: The Nickel Cinema’s Dominic Hicks on bringing cult celluloid to the centre

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  On a sunny day in late June, I went to visit The Nickel, a 37-seater micro cinema, media shop and basement bar in the heart of Farringdon. Run by filmmaker and cult film fanatic Dominic Hicks, The Nickel screens grimy underground oddities and essential cult classics alike on 16mm film, VHS and digital every week.…