Culture Editor YorkshireTX presents a season of classic British movies that defined the nation’s cinema.
Imagine finding out that Regis Philbin had founded Sub Pop, or Willard Scott secretly ran CBGB. That's kind of like the intellectual dissonance of having Tony Wilson, the definitive"and finally" segment host on local TV show, as the hapless genius behind Factory Records and scene-changing club the Hacienda. It's as unlikely as having Manchester, rain-soaked post-industrial Manchester in Britain's answer to the Rust Belt, become the cultural epicenter for dance music.
How did Merchant Ivory manage to make the Eighties the era of the dry period drama when Peter Greenaway had killed the form so perfectly a year beforemade art gallery rumbles rather than finding arthouse success, he subverted expectations about what audiences can expect from a film about fancy wigs and aristocratic airs in an English manor house in the late 17th century. A sordid mélange of sex and crime, class and art.
"We've gone on holiday by mistake.""Here hare here.""Throw yourself into the road, darling, you haven't got a chance!" Being the most eminently quotable comedy of the 1980s, with a poster that adorned every student bedroom for a decade, overshadows the scathing brilliance of a vaporous Paul McGann and a whirling dervish performance from Richard E. Grant as struggling actors who take a misguided trip to the countryside.
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