Saturday, May 27, 2006

RARE TV PLAY. FILM. DOCUMENTARY

For more information on availability or would like to know how or where to find information/dvds on these programs please email: eatfoeslikepacman@hotmail.com

Jim Cartwright
Road (1987, Directed by Alan Clarke)
Bed (1995, Directed by Michael Apted)

Alan Clarke
The Hallelujah Handshake (1970)
To Encourage the Others (1972) (TV)
Under the Age (1972)
Penda's Fen (21 March 1974)
Funny Farm (1975)
Psy-Warriors (1981)
Baal (1982)
Contact (1985) (TV)
Christine (1987)
Road (1987)
Elephant (1989) (TV)

Trevor Griffiths

Comedians (1979, Play for Today) (directed by Richard Eyre)
Country (1981, Play for Today)
The Party (1988, TV play)

Mike Leigh
The Permissive Society (1975, TV Play)
The Five Minute Films (1975, TV)
Who’s Who
Hard Labour
Grown Ups
Short and Curlies (short)
High Hopes

Mike Leigh Documentaries

Mike Leigh on the South Bank Show - Mike Leigh 2002
Mike Leigh interview with Will Self 2002

Ken Loach
Up the Junction (3 November 1965, TV)
The Golden Vision (17 April 1968, TV)

Ken Loach Documentaries

Ken Loach interview (Face to Face with Jeremy Issaacs, 1995)
Carry On Ken (More4, 17 June 2006)


Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot(2001, Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg)
Endgame by Samuel Beckett (1989, Directed by Tony Coe)
Catastrophe (2000, stars Harold Pinter, Directed by David Mamet)

Steven Berkoff’s Metamorphosis 1987 (Kafka adaptation, stars Tim Roth)

Alan Bennett’s Afternoon Off 1979 (TV play, Six plays, Directed by Stephen Frears)

Alan Bennett Documentary - Portrait or Bust (BBC, 1994)
Alan Bennett Documentary - The South Bank Show (09 Oct 1995)

Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros (1974, US film adaptation of the stage play, stars Gene Wilder)

1984 (1954) (BBC) aka "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (Adaptation by Nigel Kneale)

The Bed Sitting Room (1969, Film version of Spike Milligan’s play - stars Peter Cook, Milligan, Dudley Moore, Directed by Richard Lester)

"The Corridor People" (1966, complete 4 ep, Written by Edward Boyd (surreal detective series on Granada, TV, similar to Twin peaks/ dr. who/ pinter)

In Celebration (1975, Directed by Lindsay Anderson)

The Ploughman's Lunch (1983, Directed by Richard Eyre stars Jonathan Pryce)


DOCUMENTARIES

Ruth Roses Revolver 1987 (David Lynch - Documentary on surrealism, Arena, BBC)

Arthur Miller Interview (Face to Face with Jeremy Isaacs)
Arthur Miller: English (BBC drama-doc)

John Osborne: The Levin Interivews Series 2 Ep 01

Typically British 1995 (Documentary on British film by Stephen Frears with Michael Apted, Alan Parker)

Hollywood UK 1993 (Documentary on British film by Richard Lester)

OTHER RARE FILMS

Ace in the Hole (1951) Billy Wilder
The Demi-Paradise (1942) Anthony Asquith
The Edge of the World (1937) Michael Powell
The Hill (1965) Sidney Lumet
Night Must Fall (1964) Carol Reisz
Seagulls Over Sorrento (1954) Roy Boulting

For more information on availability or would like to know how or where to find information/dvds on these programs please email: eatfoeslikepacman@hotmail.com

2 comments:

David said...

Bloody good site. Thanks for putting in the work.

Mother said...

Thank you third_policeman.
The site has taken me back to those great days of good TV.

Any suggestions as to how us fans can start a campaign to More4 to re-run all the Plays for Today. May be it could be called Plays from Yesterday.