Rent Alan Clarke at the BBC: Dissent and Disruption: 1969-1989 (1989)
3.5 of 5 from 9 ratings
9h 15min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- This long-overdue collection finally brings together all twenty-three of the surviving stand-alone BBC TV dramas that Alan Clarke directed between 1969 and 1989, including such neglected classics as 'To Encourage the Others', 'Horace', 'Penda's Fen', 'Diane', 'Contact', 'Christine and Elephant', and also includes the first ever presentation of Clarkes' original Director's Cut of 'The Firm', assembled from his personal answer print, discovered in 2015.
- Actors:
- Richard O'Callaghan, Paul Brooke, Ian Reid, Robert Hartley, John Owens, Bill Lyons, Laurie Asprey, John Gray, Jonathan Burn, Noel Dyson, Claire Davenport, Victor Platt, Joe Gladwin, Griffith Davies, John Le Mesurier, John Scott Martin, Angela Pleasence, Shelagh Fraser, Anthony Kelly, Eileen Way
- Directors:
- Alan Clarke
- Producers:
- Irene Shubik, Graeme MacDonald, Mark Shivas, David Rose, Cedric Messina, David E. Jones, Keith Williams, June Roberts, Michael Wearing, Danny Boyle
- Writers:
- Peter Terson, Don Shaw, Colin Welland, David Yallop, Ted Whitehead, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, David Rudkin, Brian Clark, Georg Büchner, Alan Clarke, Stuart Griffiths, David Leland, Charles Levinson, Michael Hastings, Bernard MacLaverty
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Comedies, TV Crimes, TV Dramas, TV Mysteries, TV Political
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 13/06/2016
- Run Time:
- 1995 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- Colour and B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- 7 Half Hour Story episodes (1967-1968)
- Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light (2016)
- 5 x David Leland Introductions
- 9 x Audio Commentaries
- Bukovsky (Alan Clarke, 1977) + Outtakes
- Archival BBC Discussion Programmes
- A F N Clarke Interview (2016)
- Alan Clarke Interview (1989)
- Alan Clarke's Letters
- Location Photos
- + More
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes the following episodes:
- George's Room
- The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel
- Sovereign's Company
- Special Features - Disc 2:
- This disc includes the following films:
- The Hallelujah Handshake
- To Encourage the Others
- Special Features - Disc 3:
- This disc includes the following films:
- Under the Age
- Horace
- Special Features - Disc 4:
- This disc includes the following films:
- The Love-Girl and the Innocent
- Penda's Fen
- Special Features - Disc 5:
- This disc includes the following films:
- A Follower For Emily
- Diane
- Special Features - Disc 6:
- This disc includes the following films:
- Funny Farm
- Scum
- Special Features - Disc 7:
- This disc includes the following films:
- Bukovsky
- Nina
- Special Features - Disc 8:
- This disc includes the following films:
- Danton's Death
- Beloved Enemy
- Special Features - Disc 9:
- This disc includes the following films:
- PSY-Warriors
- Baal
- Special Features - Disc 10:
- This disc includes the following films:
- Stars of the Roller State Disco
- Contact
- Special Features - Disc 11:
- This disc includes the following films:
- Christine
- Road
- Special Features - Disc 12:
- This disc includes the following films:
- Elephant
- The Firm
- Special Features - Disc 13:
- This disc includes special features
- Shelter
- The Gentleman Caller
- Goodnight Albert
- Stella
- The Fifty-Seventh Saturday
- Thief
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Reviews (1) of Alan Clarke at the BBC: Dissent and Disruption: 1969-1989
A disturbing elephant - Alan Clarke at the BBC: Dissent and Disruption: 1969-1989 review by RM
I wanted to watch Elephant by Alan Clarke since arriving to Belfast one year ago hoping it will help me understand more the history of the city I came to call home. Unfortunately, the film was so much of a disappointment as it's exploration of the killings taking place in the city during the troubles was done in a cold emotionless mannar. Now of course this was intentional and aimed to show how those killing became a normal in the city. What is missed is that the killings actually never pass unnoticed by the people who experience them at close range. One thing I hated is that I felt so often that the people behind the camera actually enjoyed the killings the way they set them up. Also, as the film develops it gets harder to know if the person we see is going to be a murderer or a victim which is so much disturbing in the since that it gives the feeling that they are both the same!
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