Damon Albarn & Face (1997) – Pop Screen 33

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Face, 1997, United Kingdom, Dir. Antonia Bird (Damon Albarn) Best remembered for containing Damon Albarn’s one film acting performance, as wet-behind-the-ears aspiring gangster Jason, this week’s Pop Screen argues that Antonia Bird’s 1997 movie Face deserves more credit. A British gangster movie made in that brief moment before Lock, Stock & […]

Quadrophenia – Pop Screen Episode 14

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Pop Screen roars back, like an army of mods on scooters, with Quadrophenia. One of the definitive British cult movies, a peerless translation of an ambitious concept album and a loving tribute to a scene that, in its era, was so dangerous that the term “moral panic” was coined to […]