Reviews of (mostly) less well known "indie" films

Tag Archives: Julie Christie

I’ve had this film for ages but resisted watching it. Probably cus I’d seen Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing (and had a bad time with it, bu bum). It turned out to be as bad as Bad Timing was: by “bad” i mean dull, dated, and, er, dreadfully pretentious (i hate using that cliche criticism “pretentious” [...]


Tom Courtney about to run off on the midnight train to London with Julie Christie. Only he doesn’t. You want him to. But he chickens out. Sir Tom is a (dis)spirited sarky funeral clerk, (Leonard Rossiter is boss Shadrack) with dreams of being somewhere and someone better. “A writer? In London? Don’t talk so bloody [...]



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