
Grim January and Absolute Beginners (1986)
January’s grim tally of suddenly deceased, and a review of Julien Temple’s musical version of Colin MacInnes’ classic novel Absolute Beginners (1986), new on Blu from Twilight Time.
January’s grim tally of suddenly deceased, and a review of Julien Temple’s musical version of Colin MacInnes’ classic novel Absolute Beginners (1986), new on Blu from Twilight Time.
Based on the 1959 novel by Colin McInnes, Absolute Beginners ostensibly recounts the singular summer of a young adult as he graduates from amateur shutterbug to teen insider, snapping sharp and candid shots of the emerging teen culture …
Editorial blather plus Reviews of Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia (2012), which screened at HotDocs this year and finally gets its theatrical run in Toronto at The Bloor alongside a related doc by Julien Temple, Requiem for Detroit? (2010), made for the BBC.
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