The Fall, Dragnet album line up 1979, l-r: Mark E. Smith, Craig Scanlon, Marc Riley, Steve Hanley and Mike Leigh - photo by Brendan Jackson. #thefall#markesmith
Continuing my non-chronological journey into Thatcher's Britain in cinema. Not Alan Clarke this time, but early(ish) Mike Leigh. Features stars of the last two films I watched, Tim Roth and Gary Oldman, among others. Was once packaged together on VHS with Clarke's Made in Britain
's cracking natter with actress Ruth Sheen. They're gassing about Mike Leigh films, Inside No 9, It's A Sin, Unforgotten, acting roles for women over the age of 60, and joining the cast of BBC drama, Strike. https://bit.ly/3BrQBtL
In recent years, internationally recognised personalities from the world of film such as James Schamus, Wong Kar Wai, Mike Leigh, Isabella Rossellini, Werner Herzog, Tilda Swinton, Darren Aronofsky, Meryl Streep and Paul Verhoeven were invited to head the jury.
It's not often that I'm shocked by art, but the combination of humour and horrific social pathology in Mike Leigh's Naked does the trick.
"You're rather disgusting, aren't you?" Got-damn!