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New wave music -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Drama.
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New wave music -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Drama.
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Radio on [videorecording (DVD)].
Plexifilm, c2007.
Call #:
DVD RAD Dra
Subjects
New wave music -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Drama.
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)].
Description:
1 videodisc (102 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + 1 leaflet.
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.
Special features: Christopher Petit revisits locations from the film 20 years later ; bonus footage (24 min.) ; booklet featuring stills and liner notes by film critic Sukhdev Sandhu.
Home use only.
Production:
National Film Archives Collection ; produced by The British Film Institute and Road Movies Filmproduktion ; produced by Keith Griffiths and Wim Wenders ; written & directed by Christopher Petit.
Performers:
David
Beames
, Sandy Ratcliff, Lisa Kreuzer and Sting.
Summary:
"Director Chris Petit's 1979 post-punk classic Radio On was one of the most striking feature debuts in British cinema. Co-produced by Wim Wenders and featuring Sting's first screen performance, Radio On captured the lurking disenchantment of British youth during the Thatcher era. Filmed in luminous black and white by Martin Schafer (Wenders' brilliant cinematographer) and driven by a startling soundtrack, Petit's anti-road movie follows a London DJ (
David
Beames
) as he travels to Bristol to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, and offers a unique, compelling and even mythic vision of late 1970s England."--Container.
Genre:
British films.
Mystery films.
Road films.
Rock films.
Cult films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Petit, Christopher.
Beames
,
David
.
Ratcliff, Sandy, 1950-
Kreuzer, Lisa.
Sting (Musician)
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