Rent Blue Black Permanent (1992)
3.2 of 5 from 59 ratings
1h 26min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- This haunting and magical film moves between Edinburgh and Orkney as it tells of a photographer's attempt to come to terms with her mother's death through her childhood memories. Filled with flashbacks and dream sequences, it's also a film about islanders' relationship with the ever-present sea.
- Actors:
- Celia Imrie, Jack Shepherd, Gerda Stevenson, James Fleet, Sean Scanlan, Hilary Maclean, Walter Leask, Sheana Marr, Eoin MacDonald, Jimmy Moar, Liz Robertson, Bobby Bews, Keith Hutcheon, Mairi Wallace, Pamela Kelly, Joan Alcorn, Lisa Grindall, Gowan Calder, Katie Groat, James Holmes
- Directors:
- Margaret Tait
- Producers:
- Barbara Grigor
- Writers:
- Margaret Tait
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Drama
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 24/06/2019
- Run Time:
- 86 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- A Portrait of Ga (1953, 5 mins): Margaret Tait's hypnotic and deeply personal short documentary about her mother
- The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (1955, 7 mins): Tait's entrancing interpretation of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem
- Rose Street (1956, 15 mins): Tait's film about the Edinburgh street that runs parallel to Prince's Street
- Margaret Tait: Film Maker (1983, 34 mins): the director talks to video artist Tamara Krikorian in this portrait directed by Margaret Williams
- Film Poems Panel Discussion (2018, 31 mins): Curator Peter Todd examines Tait's work with Lucy Reynolds, So Mayer and Anna Coatman in an onstage discussion filmed at BFI Southbank
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