Ron Moody as Fagin in 'Oliver!' based on Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist.' Ron Moody as Fagin in Dickens musical 'Oliver!': Box office and critical hit (See previous post: "Ron Moody: 'Oliver!' Actor, Academy Award Nominee Dead at 91.") Although British made, Oliver! turned out to be an elephantine release along the lines of – exclamation point or no – Gypsy, Star!, Hello Dolly!, and other Hollywood mega-musicals from the mid'-50s to the early '70s.[1] But however bloated and conventional the final result, and a cast whose best-known name was that of director Carol Reed's nephew, Oliver Reed, Oliver! found countless fans.[2] The mostly British production became a huge financial and critical success in the U.S. at a time when star-studded mega-musicals had become perilous – at times downright disastrous – ventures.[3] Upon the American release of Oliver! in Dec. 1968, frequently acerbic The...
- 6/19/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Up the Junction by Peter Collinson (1968)
I could say Tokyo Story, or It's a Wonderful Life, or Bicycle Thieves, all films that I rate, but which I have learned to rate as an adult. The one film that absolutely changed and informed me as a child, though, was Up the Junction, directed by Peter Collinson and based on an earlier TV version by Ken Loach. I saw it on telly on a Saturday afternoon when I was about nine. At the time, I didn't know it was going to be an important film but it has stayed with me for 40 years.
It's about a rich girl from the Chelsea set of the 60s, who decides to give that up and live in Battersea, a poorer part of London, where Dennis Waterman becomes her boyfriend. She cuts her Lulu-style hair and starts looking like the working-class girls.
I remember being fascinated by the class differences.
I could say Tokyo Story, or It's a Wonderful Life, or Bicycle Thieves, all films that I rate, but which I have learned to rate as an adult. The one film that absolutely changed and informed me as a child, though, was Up the Junction, directed by Peter Collinson and based on an earlier TV version by Ken Loach. I saw it on telly on a Saturday afternoon when I was about nine. At the time, I didn't know it was going to be an important film but it has stayed with me for 40 years.
It's about a rich girl from the Chelsea set of the 60s, who decides to give that up and live in Battersea, a poorer part of London, where Dennis Waterman becomes her boyfriend. She cuts her Lulu-style hair and starts looking like the working-class girls.
I remember being fascinated by the class differences.
- 5/1/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
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