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The Singing Detective (Potter)
Film Description Dennis Potter's dark, twisting, noir-tinged series is simply one of the most entertaining and crucial slices of television history.
Film Information
DVD Extras 3 discs. Excerpts from 1998 documentary 'Close up: Dennis Potter under the skin'; Arena & Points of View segments; Director / Producer Commentary.
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Review by Suroor Alikhan on 11th May 2004 I don't usually use superlatives, but I have to say this is one of the most brilliant films I've seen. The fact that it is a 6-hour TV film gives it the space to do justice to the script. The film works on several levels. At one level, it is about a writer, Philip Marlowe, who is in hospital with psorisis. At another, it is Marlowe's reworking of the only book he's written - The Singing Detective. Then there are his imaginings of his wife's betrayal. Finally, when he is persuaded to go see the hospital psychiatrist, there are his memories of his childhood. All these threads are brought together, and you start to see how everything links up. Songs from the 50s are scattered throughout the film, some of them Marlowe's hallucinations in the hospital, including a wonderful impromptu dance by the hospital staff to Dry Bones!
Article - "Dennis Potter"
by MovieMail
From the rawness of Brimstone and Treacle to the sophistication of Blade on the Feather, Dennis Potter is interested, really interested, in one thing – redemption. But Potter’s God is Chapel, not Catholic. We can’t be just forgiven and cleansed; God must be mo... View article in full
Article - "Dennis Potter"
by Michael Brooke
Like Orson Welles, Dennis Potter (1935-94) all but started at the top, acclaimed as one of television's greatest writers from his first year in the business. Though there was no single blazing masterpiece to herald his arrival, a BBC initiative aimed at developing n... View article in full
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