A montage of the night-life of Piccadilly Circus across the hours, from early evening to the last lingering passers-by.
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Directed by
| Claude Goretta | ||
| Alain Tanner | ||
Written by
| Claude Goretta | ... | () |
| Alain Tanner | ... | () |
Cinematography by
| John Fletcher | ||
Sound Department
| John Fletcher | ... | sound |
Music Department
| Susan Baker | ... | musician: violin |
| Chas McDevitt | ... | musician (as Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group) |
| The Pete Ashton Quintet | ... | musician |
| Pete Pimlett | ... | musician: piano |
| Nancy Whiskey | ... | singer |
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- BFI Video (2006) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- Curzon Film Distributors
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In big cities, the pursuit of fun and entertainment leads people to places where all the distractions that meet their needs are concentrated. In London, this phenomenon is particularly marked, because the animated district is geographically delimited: it is restricted to Piccadilly Circus and a few adjacent streets. Nice Time is a series of impressions about life on Saturday night. The directors wanted to represent and stage the night in the city. Jean Vigo calls this to adopt a "documented point of view". Written by Swiss Films |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | In 1955, Goretta and Tanner, both in their mid-20s, travelled to London, where they worked at the British Film Institute, organising archives and subtitling French-language films. Two years later, with a grant of £250 from the BFI's Experimental Film Fund, they co-directed and co-wrote Nice Time, a 17-minute documentary on Piccadilly Circus at night, as part of the UK Free Cinema movement. Shot in 16mm on light-sensitive stock over 25 weekends, in what was designed to represent a single average Saturday night in the West End of London, it showed toffs and plebs, buskers, teddy boys, young couples, striptease joints and people queuing for the cinema, with no commentary. Goretta said that his years in London and the making of Nice Time, which won the experimental film prize at Venice, marked him deeply, and influenced his attitude towards independent film-making in French-speaking Switzerland. [The Guardian, 2019] See more » |