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The examples I’m using here are British but this could be films from any country or era. I’m talking about films that would’ve made a splash at the time of their release but rarely get a rerun on TV / featured in a streaming service / talked about these days.
Letter to Brezhnev (1985): this is one of those great “Thatcher’s Britain” films that captured working class life at the time. It reviewed well when it premiered and was a staple of Channel 4 (who funded the film) in the 80’s/90’s but it rarely gets a mention these days and I can’t recall the last time I saw it on TV. By comparison, Rita, Sue & Bob Too, which came out around the same is repeated regularly on TV and pops up on streaming services like Channel 4 and Mubi.
Scandal (1989): based on the notorious Profumo Affair, it had a great cast (Bridget Fonda, Joanne Whalley, John Hurt, Ian McKellan), a great music theme (Dusty Springfield produced by Pet Shop Boys) and great reviews. Yet, like Letter to Brezhnev, it rarely surfaces on TV or streaming at all these days.
What are your forgotten classics?
Letter to Brezhnev (1985): this is one of those great “Thatcher’s Britain” films that captured working class life at the time. It reviewed well when it premiered and was a staple of Channel 4 (who funded the film) in the 80’s/90’s but it rarely gets a mention these days and I can’t recall the last time I saw it on TV. By comparison, Rita, Sue & Bob Too, which came out around the same is repeated regularly on TV and pops up on streaming services like Channel 4 and Mubi.
Scandal (1989): based on the notorious Profumo Affair, it had a great cast (Bridget Fonda, Joanne Whalley, John Hurt, Ian McKellan), a great music theme (Dusty Springfield produced by Pet Shop Boys) and great reviews. Yet, like Letter to Brezhnev, it rarely surfaces on TV or streaming at all these days.
What are your forgotten classics?
