A new documentary about the clashes between mods and rockers will air on BBC One later this month.
Mods and Rockers Rebooted will be broadcast on Friday, August 22 at 7.30pm to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the seafront fights between the two subcultures.
Quadrophenia 2 wouldn't be authentic, says director Franc Roddam
The mods and rocker clashes inspired The Who's 1973 album Quadrophenia and Franc Roddam's 1979 film of the same name, which marks its 35th birthday this month.
Mods and Rockers Rebooted asks how much truth there was in the news reports of the time and how much Roddam's film reflected reality.
"To seek answers, and separate fact from fiction, the BBC documentary, narrated by Quadrophenia star Phil Daniels, goes back to each location piecing together the events of 1964 in chronological order," said the BBC.
The Who: Quadrophenia (Deluxe Edition) - Album review
"It will reveal the real people behind the hard-hitting headlines,...
Mods and Rockers Rebooted will be broadcast on Friday, August 22 at 7.30pm to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the seafront fights between the two subcultures.
Quadrophenia 2 wouldn't be authentic, says director Franc Roddam
The mods and rocker clashes inspired The Who's 1973 album Quadrophenia and Franc Roddam's 1979 film of the same name, which marks its 35th birthday this month.
Mods and Rockers Rebooted asks how much truth there was in the news reports of the time and how much Roddam's film reflected reality.
"To seek answers, and separate fact from fiction, the BBC documentary, narrated by Quadrophenia star Phil Daniels, goes back to each location piecing together the events of 1964 in chronological order," said the BBC.
The Who: Quadrophenia (Deluxe Edition) - Album review
"It will reveal the real people behind the hard-hitting headlines,...
- 8/15/2014
- Digital Spy
Teenagers take to the streets and Britain erupts in moral panic – why does Franc Roddam's 1979 cult classic feel so familiar?
Director: Franc Roddam
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: A–
Between 1964 and 1966, teenagers rioted in British seaside towns. Violence flared between mods and rockers, two youth movements that were connected in the press with drug-taking, vandalism and delinquency.
Youth culture
Jimmy (Phil Daniels), a fictional mod, hangs out in a London dive. Everyone looks about 12; pass round a few splurge guns and you'd be in Bugsy Malone. But this lot are less the adorable moppet sort of gangster and more the sort that takes pills, nicks stuff and smashes other people's faces in. Among the newspaper clippings and pornography on Jimmy's bedroom wall is an article about the 'Battle of Hastings' – not the 1066 one with the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans, but the 1964 one with the mods and the rockers. The...
Director: Franc Roddam
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: A–
Between 1964 and 1966, teenagers rioted in British seaside towns. Violence flared between mods and rockers, two youth movements that were connected in the press with drug-taking, vandalism and delinquency.
Youth culture
Jimmy (Phil Daniels), a fictional mod, hangs out in a London dive. Everyone looks about 12; pass round a few splurge guns and you'd be in Bugsy Malone. But this lot are less the adorable moppet sort of gangster and more the sort that takes pills, nicks stuff and smashes other people's faces in. Among the newspaper clippings and pornography on Jimmy's bedroom wall is an article about the 'Battle of Hastings' – not the 1066 one with the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans, but the 1964 one with the mods and the rockers. The...
- 8/18/2011
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
A gallery worker has been found not guilty of pocketing cash from the sale of artworks by Robert De Niro's father.
Leigh Morse, 55, was acquitted of a charge of grand larceny at a New York court on Wednesday, relating to the sale of two pictures by the Hollywood actor's artist father, Robert De Niro, Sr., through the Salander-o'Reilly Galleries.
The Raging Bull star took the stand last month to testify in the case and claimed he never received any cash from Morse for the paintings - despite being entitled to 50 per cent of the proceeds.
Morse was found not guilty on the charge relating to De Niro, but was convicted of plotting a scheme to defraud in the first degree relating to four artists' estates.
Morse faces up to four years in prison when she is handed her sentence on 3 June.
After the case, one juror spoke out to apologise to De Niro, insisting he wanted to return a guilty verdict but felt under "pressure" to agree with his fellow panel members.
In an interview with the New York Daily News, Stanley Cohen says, "Tell De Niro I am sorry, but it was hopeless... The pressure got to be unbearable. It was gruelling. I apologise to Mr. De Niro. I'll see him in the movies."
Salander-o'Reilly Galleries boss, Lawrence Salander, 61, pleaded guilty to 28 counts of grand larceny last March. He was subsequently handed a lengthy prison sentence.
Leigh Morse, 55, was acquitted of a charge of grand larceny at a New York court on Wednesday, relating to the sale of two pictures by the Hollywood actor's artist father, Robert De Niro, Sr., through the Salander-o'Reilly Galleries.
The Raging Bull star took the stand last month to testify in the case and claimed he never received any cash from Morse for the paintings - despite being entitled to 50 per cent of the proceeds.
Morse was found not guilty on the charge relating to De Niro, but was convicted of plotting a scheme to defraud in the first degree relating to four artists' estates.
Morse faces up to four years in prison when she is handed her sentence on 3 June.
After the case, one juror spoke out to apologise to De Niro, insisting he wanted to return a guilty verdict but felt under "pressure" to agree with his fellow panel members.
In an interview with the New York Daily News, Stanley Cohen says, "Tell De Niro I am sorry, but it was hopeless... The pressure got to be unbearable. It was gruelling. I apologise to Mr. De Niro. I'll see him in the movies."
Salander-o'Reilly Galleries boss, Lawrence Salander, 61, pleaded guilty to 28 counts of grand larceny last March. He was subsequently handed a lengthy prison sentence.
- 4/7/2011
- WENN
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