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Post by Teatoe Films - Die Smiling on Nov 2, 2007 10:27:03 GMT
Hi eveyone.
i am doing a project on This is England and would like some help.
i need another film based in the 80s to compare with this film can anyone help me find one?
thanks for any help you can give
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Post by Hyde on Nov 2, 2007 13:47:52 GMT
that ummm... porky's
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Post by bigboyjim on Nov 2, 2007 15:08:39 GMT
Try Alan Clarke's The Firm, and no, that's not the Tom Cruise one either.
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Post by bennybullfrog on Nov 2, 2007 15:46:54 GMT
Try Alan Clarke's The Firm, and no, that's not the Tom Cruise one either. ..one of Gary Oldmans first films I think? Also didn't one of the cast from Quadrophenia play the leader of the "other" Firm? I am sure I've got the video in the loft somewhere... gonna have to dig it out and have a watch of it now. |
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Post by bigben on Nov 2, 2007 15:47:15 GMT
"suburbia" 1984. not a british film but not sure that matters.
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Post by DeLarge on Nov 3, 2007 10:47:44 GMT
Porkys was set in the 50s. Or were you joshing?
The Firm - Yeah the Yeti is also 'Chalky' from Quadrophenia, a regular in Mike Leigh films ans also the director of another 'hooli' flick in I.D.
Meantime and Made In Britain, Rita, Sue and Bob Too would all be good ones to check out.
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Post by Hyde on Nov 3, 2007 12:37:46 GMT
I thought Porky's was an 80's film, by Bob Clark... who I had mistaken for Alan Clark.. cause he made films like made in britain and shit.
Awful joke.
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Post by Dave on Nov 3, 2007 12:43:41 GMT
I thought Porky's was an 80's film, by Bob Clark... who I had mistaken for Alan Clark.. cause he made films like made in britain and shit. Awful joke. ...and Bob Clark is dead. Sicko!  |
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Post by Hyde on Nov 3, 2007 12:49:21 GMT
Ya I know, and shut up I was affected, I like CHILDREN SHOULDNT PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS, DEATHDREAM AND BLACK CHRISTMAS
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Post by Bill Edwards on Nov 3, 2007 14:44:52 GMT
Hi eveyone. i am doing a project on This is England and would like some help. i need another film based in the 80s to compare with this film can anyone help me find one? thanks for any help you can give When you say, "based in the 80s" do you mean a film set in that decade, in Britain, but specifically not made in that decade? If so, I honestly can't think of another... There's that Awaydays movie that's being discussed here: shanemeadows.proboards39.com/index.cgi?board=film&action=display&thread=1193678122&page=1#1193678122Control, the Ian Curtis biopic, finished up in 1980 but I know that doesn't really count. D'OH! That's just jogged my memory! 24 Hour Party People was also partially set in the eighties. Good luck! |
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Post by anonlytwin on Nov 3, 2007 16:47:47 GMT
mike leigh, alan clarke, ken loach all make films which spend a lot of time dealing with the effects of thatcherism... some of them are made in the 90's but focusing on the 80's... that is superbly vague actually.. so, check out riff-raff by loach perhaps and naked by leigh.. they adopt totally different approaches to that if meadows, but they are bith an attck of thatcherism, which is what tie is implicitly spending a lot of its time doing.. good luck
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Post by sammo on Nov 11, 2007 22:59:32 GMT
I know its not technically set in the 80's - more made in the 80's but they very much are the products of their time. Anything by John Hughes?
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Post by primordial on Mar 9, 2008 3:55:23 GMT
mike leigh, alan clarke, ken loach all make films which spend a lot of time dealing with the effects of thatcherism... some of them are made in the 90's but focusing on the 80's... that is superbly vague actually.. so, check out riff-raff by loach perhaps and naked by leigh.. they adopt totally different approaches to that if meadows, but they are bith an attck of thatcherism, which is what tie is implicitly spending a lot of its time doing.. good luck Specifically I would recommend Meantime by Mike Leigh, shot I believe in 1983 for tv, its production values are so gloriously low it feels more like something from the late 70s... In fact I'd recommend this film to ANY film fan as a bit of a rough cut gem since it features some of the earliest film performances by Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Alfred Molina, and Pam Ferris who have all ended up in Hollywood films, not to mention Phil Daniels who is at his brilliant and funny best in it... Interestingly enough the basic storyline is very similar to This Is England in that the central character Colin (in this case a ''retard'' rather than a young kid) finds identity and self-meaning by joining Oldman's pathetic little racist skinhead gang. There's a lovely bit of realism where Oldman tries to front a Jamaican guy in a lift but totally wimps out when the black guy cuffs him and cusses him out...  |
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Post by jimmy975 on Mar 25, 2008 22:46:37 GMT
I know it sounds a bit obvious of me saying this as i've paired TIE with it already, but Trainspotting is an excellent film based in the late 80's.
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Post by anonlytwin on Mar 28, 2008 16:04:29 GMT
is trainspotting set in the late eighties? if so, then i never did know that
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