In four Tweets, a taste of Mike Leigh's Peterloo (2018)

In four Tweets, a taste of Mike Leigh's Peterloo (2018)

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2018 (25 October to 1 November)
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16 December

In four Tweets, a taste of Mike Leigh's Peterloo (2018)

It's both as when Spall is stylized to prick pomposity (e.g. portraying Ruskin's aesthetics as fatuous) and reclaim his works as those of humility, not nobility, and @Aiannucci's melding the terror and humour in the power-struggle (e.g. Molotov (Palin) and Beria (Russell Beale)).

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 17, 2018

Therefore, for example, it is apt for us to be reminded of any of these events or references :

* Hillsborough

* The Battle of Culloden

* @orgreavejustice

* Blackadder The Third*

* *That* 23 June thing

* And Leigh's Prince Regent is Curtis and Elton's own Tim McInnerny.

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 17, 2018

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Useful footage on the Thatcher premiership – if you already know the contexts ?

This is a review, by Tweet, of Generation Right (2015)

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2015 (3 to 13 September)
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20 August

This is a review, by Tweet, of Generation Right (2015)

The film was seen as a result of Sheffield Doc/Fest 2015 (@sheffdocfest), on Videotheque

And Thatcher is said to have described immigrants as 'swamping' Britain. Nothing about The Falklands, no reference to her ceasing as leader.

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 20, 2015

Society does things – things happen – because of inequality.

Norman Tebbit (Lord Tebbit)

Footage of Scargill/ Orgreave/ strikers, but with fleeting mention of civil liberties, and no irony in MT condemning mobs / using police ?

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 20, 2015

We’ve privatized industry after industry. Government ought not to control business – it doesn’t know how to do it, it interferes.

Thatcher

-> Does it err too much on t.v. interviews and Party Conference speeches, and pretending some sort of vague balance with Tebbit, Howard...

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 21, 2015

I don’t believe that economic equality is possible. Indeed, some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy, and keeping up with the Joneses and so on, that is a valuable spur to economic activity.

Boris Johnson

All in all, touches on too many topics in 41 mins, and only establishing Blairiteroots in Thatcherism’s tenuous claims to personal liberty

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 20, 2015

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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)