David Bowie in Baal – Pop Screen 68

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Yeah, when we announced a month of David Bowie movies, you weren’t expecting this one, were you? An adaptation of an obscure early Berthold Brecht play that Bowie recorded for the BBC in between Scary Monsters and Let’s Dance, Baal is quite probably the most challenging artefact in his screen […]

Die Antwoord in Chappie – Pop Screen 66

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We normally use a still from the film for our episode image, but who could resist this photo from the premiere of Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie? It perfectly encapsulates the bizarre appeal of the film, which assembles an enviable cast of blue-chip movie stars and reliable character actors, then has them […]

Lulu in Gonks Go Beat – Pop Screen 65

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It’s no surprise that Pop Screen keeps going back to the 1960s – in many ways, that decade saw the birth of the pop movie as a recognisable genre. That doesn’t mean that every film became a classic, although the film we’re looking at today became a cult classic of […]

Manfred Mann & Privilege – Pop Screen 60

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Pop Screen is going a bit off the beaten track this week, but rewardingly so. Peter Watkins is a maverick British director whose previous film The War Game was banned on the instruction of then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson, so when he was hired by Universal to make a teen-focused rock […]