Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD EAN: 5013929500150 Format: Compilation, Soundtrack, NTSC Label: Rpm Records UK Manufacturer: Rpm Records UK Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Rpm Records UK Release Date: May 11, 2004 Sales Rank: 145270 Studio: Rpm Records UK Theatrical Release Date: May 11, 2004
Rating: - Let's be honest... it is a bit boring.
This movie can get a bit boring. The sound's often bad too. If it weren't for the fact that it the film belongs to skins and suedeheads it would most likley have been forgotten by most years ago.
While it may not be that great a film, it is an interesting document of a time period. I own it and watched it a couple times. No regrets. But it really isn't a "great" film, even if the sound were improved upon.
Rating: - It's hard to make agitprop work
Kitchen-sink theatre was well into (and possibly even past) its prime before films portraying what reviewers called "a gritty realism" started to appear. On the whole, the most successful kitchen-sink films - directors realized the versatility of the medium at once, and they effectively became agitprop films - were the ones based on recent novels of working-class life. "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner", "This Sporting Life", "Kes" (badly over-rated), and "Poor Cow" were the acknowledged classics.
I mention "Poor Cow" last because Nell Dunn, like Barney Platts-Mills who directed "Bronco Bullfrog", was labelled as a rich kid slumming. Sincerity needn't come through, or be belied, on screen; you care first about things like plot, characters and setting, and little else really matters.
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Rating: - groundbreaking
I saw this film ten years ago at an underground film festival in London and have been trying to get a copy ever since. This film stars Sam Shepard at about 16 years of age. It is dogma 30 years before dogma was invented. If you are a Mike Leigh fan you must see this. Groundbreaking--it was more like watching real life than any narrative film I have ever seen. The film supposedly also influenced Pete Townshend of The Who, and inspired another rock band to take its title. I however ordered this film last year and it did not play in my NTSC DVD player so I sent it back. Can't wait until the foolproof non-PAL dvd is released.
Rating: - Suedehead CLASSIC.
This fairly unknown British film is really a classic of the genre. Very realistic portrayal of disenchanted working class youth in London.
Del is a bored youth going nowhere and doing nothing, with a dead end job, in a dead end town (starting to sound like a KINKS song) who basically runs around with his Suedehead/Skinhead friends, committing little thefts, trying to act hard and the like and generally looking for something to do.
He has two meetings that will change his life. 1) Jo "Bronco Bullfrog" has just escaped from the Borstal and is on the run, "doing jobs" (petty crime) and avoiding the law. 2) Irene, his teenage love interest. Del's relationship with both will test his limits and see how far he is really willing to go.
We take a look at one's kid's futile attempts to become soemthing bigger and escape the doldrums that life has to offer.
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