This children's TV series from 1979 follows the plight of Silas Trumble (Robert James) a warehouse worker who finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy.
Advantages: CHILLING VISION OF A NUCLEAR WAR, WELL WRITTEN & PRODUCED Disadvantages: A LITTLE DATED
The long awaited release of this feature on DVD has finally come to pass. There was a great deal of interest in this film that saw the old VHS version selling on certain auction sites for as much as £34 a time.
The film is about two families drawn together after their daughter Ruth becomes pregnant by her fiancee. Both families try and come to terms with the fact that their son and daughter are having a baby with neither of them having any money.
Eventually they get a flat together with help and start their life together.
However, things happening abroad make the nation paranoid about the possibility of a nuclear attack and adverts appear on the television about what to do in the event of an attack. Families go out and buy up food and construct homemade shelters within their houses.
Then the unthinkable happens and Britain is ...
pc2308 21.04.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Threads (DVD)
Advantages: fascinating, relentlessly brutal, good performances, convincing despite its small budget Disadvantages: None
I remember watching threads for the first time back in school, and finding it both terrifying and fascinating at the same time. I watched it again recently, and the film has certainly lost none of its power to shock. Made back in 1984, Threads is a British made-for-tv film in which Britain is all-but annihilated in a nuclear holocaust. Set in Sheffield, the film starts in a very innocuous fashion, filmed in a low-budget way that brings to mind old episodes of coronation street and lulls you into a false sense of security. People chatter away in pubs whilst a television in the corner voices portentous omens about the conflict between Russia and the west in Iran. There is talk of nuclear war, but of course, nobody believes it could actually really -happen-.
Young lovers Ruth Beckett & Jimmy Kemp find themselves in difficult ...
Burning_Darkness 02.10.2009 (06.10.2009)
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Advantages: Authentic recording, a direct link to the composer of this beautiful music, very expressive and stylish. Disadvantages: A different style with some small technical discrepences, some might prefer a more modern recording.
The contributions of Maurice Ravel to the 20th century piano repertory are a tender and expressive gift, standing out as some of the best examples of French Impressionist solo pieces from that time along with works by his contemporaries Debussy and Fauré. Since his early death in 1930, many performers have turned to his pupils - Vlado Perlemuter, and Marguerite Long expecting that they, with all their close contact with him, would be the most direct link to the man himself. They strongly emphasise the idea of strictness, lack of any kind of exaggeration, expression or imitation of past traditions, as though the piece is like an object to be guarded. However "Masters of the Piano Roil..." is primary evidence that flatly contradicts what they say - there are over 250 recordings of Ravel playing his own work (some of the best featured ...
This children's TV series from 1979 follows the plight of Silas Trumble (Robert James) a warehouse worker who finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy.
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