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Dennis Potter's Televisual Legacy
Lipstick:
Too hot for American TV
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DreamChild
(1985) A speculative fantasy of Alice Liddel's last days.
94 min., Color, $9.99
The Last Interview
(1994) Channel 4 brought Dennis Potter into a studio, fed him champagne and liquid morphine on the air, and let him say what he had to say. The New York Daily News hailed it as "the most moving, absorbing and life-affirming TV interview since 'Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth'."
70 min., Color, $19.99
"Shallow Grave" star
Ewan McGregor
lives out his Elvis fantasy
Lipstick On Your Collar
(1993) 50s rock 'n' roll and Cold War paranoia shape the lives of a few unlucky young men, cooped up in a British Intelligence office, translating Russian newspapers during the Suez Canal crisis. Ewan McGregor, however, whiles away the dull hours with his very own stark naked guardian angel. Lots of quasi-musical numbers about naughty bits and what gets done with them.
360 min., Color, $59.99 for three volumes...& Churchill lives out
his Colonel fantasy, too!
Pennies from Heaven
(1981) We had thought the original British TV series was out by now, but it seems not to have been released. This big screen version cuts down the material considerably, and cinematographer Gordon Willis overlays the kind of Hollywood sheen Potter was originally trying to satirize. Bernadette Peters and Steve Martin make a go of the odd musical numbers. A brilliant oddity.
107 min., Color & B/W, $19.99
Track 29
(1988) Speaking of brilliant oddities... A British crew camped out in the Carolinas to get this all on film. Nicholas Roeg directed wife Theresa Russell, playing a bored housewife who is stalked by a young Brit (Gary Oldman). He claims to be her long-lost son but keeps coming on to her... Watch out for Sandra Bernhard, who wields a mean rubber glove!
90 min., Color, $14.99
Also released in the US but not on tape right now: Brimstone and Treacle, 1982; Gorky Park, 1983 - check with those who carry used or out-of-circulation tapes. Not on video: Emma's War, 1985; Secret Friends, 1992.
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