Privilege
Summary:
After directing several extraordinary documentaries for the BBC, including the award-winning The War Game and Culloden, Peter Watkins made his first dramatic feature with this flawed but striking film about Steven Shorter (Paul Jones), a pop singer in a future society where entertainment is controlled by a totalitarian government. Shorter's music and image are ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Paul Jones - (Steve Shorter)
Jean Shrimpton - (Vanessa Ritchie)
Mark London - (Alvin Kirsch)
William Job - (Andrew Butler)
Max Bacon - (Julie Jordan)
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Review:
Few major filmmakers of the 1960s and '70s are as underappreciated as Peter Watkins, though given the current availability of his body of work, that's not so difficult to understand. Only one of his films, The War Game, is widely available on video in the United States, and Privilege, which by all rights should be Watkins' most accessib... Continue >>
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