Inspired by Ronald Blythe’s 1969 paean to Britain’s vanishing rural life, Akenfield was directed by Peter Hall and used real-life villagers improvising their own dialogue to tell the story of ‘three generations in terms of work, belief, education and climate’. The film premiered at the London film festival in 1974, and was seen by 14 million people when it was shown on TV in early 1975.
Akenfield is released on DVD and Blu-ray on 25 July. Continue reading...
Akenfield is released on DVD and Blu-ray on 25 July. Continue reading...
- 7/22/2016
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
A report lists new measures to revitalise ailing British film industry
Two days before Christmas, the report of the Prime Minister's working party on the ailing British film industry thumped on to his desk, and the cinema moguls will be agog to scan its findings when they published after Parliament resumes.
One recommendation they are unlikely to see in the report is the Writers' Guild idea that television should not be allowed to show films made for the cinema until they are at least 15 years old.
If that were currently the rule - instead of the five year wait which is normally imposed - 22 of the 47 movies shown by the BBC over the past holiday fortnight would have been kept off the screen, including Women In Love, Carry On Up The Khyber, and Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid.
Which, some may feel, would have improved the quality of entertainment...
Two days before Christmas, the report of the Prime Minister's working party on the ailing British film industry thumped on to his desk, and the cinema moguls will be agog to scan its findings when they published after Parliament resumes.
One recommendation they are unlikely to see in the report is the Writers' Guild idea that television should not be allowed to show films made for the cinema until they are at least 15 years old.
If that were currently the rule - instead of the five year wait which is normally imposed - 22 of the 47 movies shown by the BBC over the past holiday fortnight would have been kept off the screen, including Women In Love, Carry On Up The Khyber, and Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid.
Which, some may feel, would have improved the quality of entertainment...
- 1/3/2014
- by Hugh Hebert
- The Guardian - Film News
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