Greg,

Knowing of your interest in early-60's Britain, I kinda suspected
that "Hollywood UK" would be right up your alley! It certainly is an
effort of enormous scope. They obviously went to a lot of trouble to
revisit many film locations, even to creating matching shots, e.g.,
Alan Sillitoe and the Raleigh factory as you said.

It was great to finally see and hear some of these filmmakers, like
Tony Richardson and John Osborne (and even Oscar Lewenstein). Now I
understand why Rita is always imitating Tony Richardson's odd voice.

I have the DVD's of the 2005 re-broadcasts, but have not watched them
in detail to see which scenes were deleted by the BBC in order to trim
12 minutes from each episode. I would hate to have ANY scenes deleted,
especially from those first two episodes, which I agree are probably
the best of the five.

Robert

--- In finallyaritatushinghamclub@yahoogroups.com, "gogarrio"
<shiloh7@a...> wrote:
>
> Robert, the first two episodes: Oh, my God! What an orgy of delights!
> Interviews and comment from directors Schlesinger, Richardson, Loach,
> Reisz and Lester. Period talk by Albert Finney, Julie Christie,
> Terence Stamp and Michael Caine. Rita and Lynn riding in a car
> together, talking about Swinging London. Cliff Richard talking
> about "A Hard Day's Night". Writers Alun Owen and Frederic Raphael
> discussing "A Hard Day's Night" and "Darling". There are TOO many
> icons packed into these episodes. It's the Holy Grail of '60s British
> filmaking. I'd seen the "Billy Liar" segment, which is excerpted in
> the Criterion DVD for "Billy Liar", but that's just a fraction of
> what's on these episodes. I'm absolutely stunned, knocked out and
> overwhelmed at how much they crammed in.
>
> Greg O.
>