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In search of the Dorset locations of Nuts in May (opens the original)
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Mike Leigh was one of the great directors to rise through the ranks of the BBC in the 1960s and 1970s. Alongside the likes of Ken Loach, Alan Clarke and Ridley Scott, he honed his craft with smaller-scale dramas, usually for the BBC’s various single drama strands such as Second City Firsts, BBC2 Playhouse and, most successfully, Play for Today. Leigh directed six Play for Today dramas in total, including the celebrated Abigail’s Party (1977) and, probably the most filmic and interesting in terms
A tour of Alfred Hitchcock’s London: how the locations look today (opens the original)
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Although he made his most famous films in America, Alfred Hitchcock was a Londoner through and through. Born in Leytonstone when it was still technically a part of Essex, Hitchcock lived in several areas of the city before accepting the call to Hollywood in 1939. So when he was starting out as a filmmaker, he naturally looked to London as a source for drama and location work. Hitchcock’s 1927 adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes’s novel The Lodger is a prime example, combining London history and u
How the nuclear attack locations from Peter Watkins’ The War Game look today (opens the original)
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Peter Watkins was arguably the most controversial director to emerge from the BBC in the post-war period. He combined biting political comment with a startlingly believable documentary style of filmmaking, much to the alarm of the broadcaster and even the government. One of Watkins’ earliest projects was one of his most provocative. Made by the BBC in 1965, at the height of the Cold War, The War Game was eventually deemed so disturbing that its broadcast was withdrawn. Instead, it was shown in a
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