Based on David Peace’s cult novels about the far-reaching tentacles of the corrupt West Yorkshire police force in the ’70s and ’80s, Red Riding hits theaters as an anomic, must-see trilogy.
“Dickens on bad acid” is the phrase used by screenwriter Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) to pithily describe the sprawling, paranoiac nature of the telefilms he wrote for Channel 4 in the UK. This inky triptych nears Bacon-esque nightmarishness and ravishment, with each part helmed by a different talent shooting in a different format. Together, Julian Jarrold (gritty 16mm), James Marsh (elegant 35mm), and Anand Tucker (immersive widescreen) magnificently exhume a past in which the cutthroat police have a members-only toast: “To the North, where we do what we want.”
See more clips from the trilogy, learn more about author David Peace, and read an interview with a few of the cast members, including young 1974 star Andrew Garfield.
I was listening to NPR and this was being doscussed. Sounds Way. Brilly. But I hear James Cameron wants to buy the rights and make a movie. Set in mid America.Ick!
ReplyDeleteStill sitting in my viewing queue. Sadly. Will def get to it before the month is out. Promise!
ReplyDeleteIt is superb TV!
ReplyDelete@Fifi - Cameron - say it ain't so!!! Fuck couldn't think of anything worse!
@Stan - yeah, yeah LOL!
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Very good series! Also try 'Our Friends in the North' another class bit of UK tv
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