The Who in Tommy (1975) – Pop Screen 92

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See it! Feel it! It’s finally time for Pop Screen to scale the all-time summit of the rock opera form – Ken Russell’s Tommy, based on the album by The Who. Pete Townsend’s achingly personal tale of a traumatised kid mistakenly hailed as a messiah, it’s got a soundtrack of […]

Cinema Eclectica 46 – Pete Best of the Apocalypse

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This week we go full fan-theory. Brave waters indeed. In Off the Shelf we have a body-horror masterclass with David Cronenberg’s “Videodrome”, Jules Dassin’s “Thieves Highway” – the film-noir that’s totally not a western, Wong Kar Wai’s “The Grandmaster” and a surprise aided the randomizer, which became “The Ecstasy of […]