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Post by cooper67 on Feb 16, 2018 1:18:11 GMT
The only man who could put mine and Billy's fantasies and idea's together.
Been rewatching 'Lipstick on your Collar' and saw this.
Death and football together absolutely brilliant.
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Post by bathstoke on Feb 16, 2018 6:32:27 GMT
Death&Football!?! Is it the 1980's, never mind the 50's.
Forgot Ewan McGregor was in that.
Love a bit of Potter, great loss. What was that he wrote on cryogenics before he died...
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Post by marwood on Feb 16, 2018 8:58:21 GMT
All of Potter's work was outstanding, he is of course remembered for Singing Detective etc , but his 1960s work was bob on as well.
The 1976 TV version of Brimstone and Treacle can still be a challenging watch today, mainly thanks to the writing but also Michael Kitchen. It was banned until 1987 when i saw it on TV, years after the movie version and i think much better and tighter than its cinema counterpart. I think Kitchen would have been a bigger star if show in 1976 - he had to wait until the late 80s/early 90s for really impressive turns in stuff like Minder, House of Cards and Morse to make an impact
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Post by Dutchpeter on Feb 16, 2018 9:48:40 GMT
The Singing Detective was something that really opened my eyes as a teenage lad. Not because of the Sex scenes, but because of its sheer originality and how the story is told through childhood recall, hallucination, fantasy and his existence as a hospital patient. It’s astonishing to think something that radical was on BBC One on a Sunday evening. I’m sure script writers today must look back on that time, and envy the trust and artistic freedom people like Dennis Potter had.
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Post by bathstoke on Feb 17, 2018 8:50:56 GMT
The Singing Detective was something that really opened my eyes as a teenage lad. Not because of the Sex scenes, but because of its sheer originality and how the story is told through childhood recall, hallucination, fantasy and his existence as a hospital patient. It’s astonishing to think something that radical was on BBC One on a Sunday evening. I’m sure script writers today must look back on that time, and envy the trust and artistic freedom people like Dennis Potter had. It's the world as seen through the eyes of a war baby, growing up in the Forest of Dean. Strange folk them Foresters, growing up in the Boarder Country. |
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