Dennis Potter's play 'Blue Remembered Hills' is set in the Forest of Dean. One summer's day in 1943, seven children go out to play. Adult actors portray the parts of all the seven children.
Dennis Potter's acclaimed television play - though the most straightforward and realistic ... more
of his popular works - is both a hilarious and incredibly moving story. Through the simple act of using adults in the roles, Potter was able to emphasize the dark...
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Advantages: The voicing and expression of pertinent and profound observations of childhood Disadvantages: The shock from Potter's revelations about the inate potential for evil within the youngest of children
BlueRememberedHills tells the story of seven seven year old Welsh children from the Forest of Dean. We join them mid afternoon as they frollock happily without a care in the world, tumbling through undergrowth, chanting, throwing stones and experimenting with their newly found feelings from their sexual awakening. When the children remarkably kill a squirrel as they knock it from a tree with a skillfully aimed stone throw they savagely stamp and stamp and stamp with great ferrocity and humour. However as the consequences and apparent symbolism of their actions is made clear to them the afternoon radically transforms with a spiralling set of circumstances into an uncontrollabale orgy of violence. A young life is lost and the children must relinquish their youthful innocense for ever.
The script has been adapted from the 1970's ...
Advantages: Fast-paced drama, good characters, plenty of humour Disadvantages: They stopped making it
In an age when almost every TV series ever made is released on DVD the moment it finishes its run on mainstream television, it seems remarkable that it took twenty five years for the classic American police drama series Hill Street Blues to be afforded the same treatment, as least as far as the UK market is concerned. The show was first aired back in 1981, and amidst the deluge of police and crime series which have followed in its wake, it would be all too easy to dismiss the programme as just another American cop show, full of the usual car-chases, shoot-outs and general law and disorder. Hill Street Blues was much more than that, however, and it's probably fair to say to say that many of the excellent drama series produced during the intervening years owe their success, and possibly their very existence to the show's courageously ...
Advantages: A amazing one of a kind film, highly interesting and thought provoking Disadvantages: none
are so true to life and so moving, well maybe it is but i haven't seen them lol. I don't often find i remember films all that well unless they where 80s classics. I find nothing ever matches up to them for me in terms of how great they are but this really does. Every single aspect of it is absolutely brilliant, from the excellent soundtrack that i am sure most people will love to the excellent storyline. This film has impact, its impressive and as i am writing this review i am going to look for the DVD to buy online, so i can have my own copy to watch when i want. ...
Dennis Potter's play 'Blue Remembered Hills' is set in the Forest of Dean. One summer's day in 1943, seven children go out to play. Adult actors portray the parts of all the seven children.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO; SONY DADC
Release date
26/09/2005
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
BBCDVD 1672
Barcode
5014503167226
Languages
Main Language
English
DVD Description
Dennis Potter's play 'Blue Remembered Hills' is set in the Forest of Dean. One summer's day in 1943, seven children go out to play. Adult actors portray the parts of all the seven children.
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