British Cinema
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PARTITION (Dir. Ken McMullen, 1987, UK) – ‘What have you done to my world?!’
Commissioned by Channel 4 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the partitioning of India, Partition is more political theatre than cinema. Reassuringly, some of the finest British leftist promulgators were involved in the task of adapting writer Saadat Hasan Manto’s famous short story ‘Toba Tekh Singh’. Produced by Tariq Ali and Darcus Howe, directed by Continue reading
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WINSTANLEY (Dir. Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, 1975, UK) – ‘There shall be no buying and selling…’
It was pretty dispiriting to read a couple of reviews from mainstream publications that rubbished such an extraordinary and unique British film. I approached Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo’s Winstanley from an entirely neutral perspective and whilst I had heard good things about it I knew absolutely nothing about the real life figure of Gerrard Continue reading
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