Remembrance (Gregg, 1982): Cinema Museum, 7.30pm
Cinema Museum introduction:
A rare opportunity to see this re-discovered British film from 1982 on the big screen, which was Gary Oldman’s first film, and also starred Tim Spall and John Altman. Remembrance was released in 1982. It won the Grand Prize at the Taormina Film Festival and was screened in the first month of Channel 4’s existence. A group of young Royal Navy sailors spend their last night ashore before leaving on a six-month tour of duty. Set around the pubs and clubs of the notorious Union Street in Plymouth, the film cuts between interweaving stories of several characters: some are happy to go, others sad to be parting from families friends and lovers. And for one, there is a score to settle. Central among these stories is a mystery: who is the young man who we meet at the start of the film, so drunk, so adrift – and at risk? Remembrance was the third in the sequence of six films made between 1978 and 1988 by director Colin Gregg and screenwriter Hugh Stoddart, and perhaps it was the speed with which they were being funded to make films at the time that might explain why Remembrance was allowed to disappear. The Falklands War, happening between the shoot and the film’s release, rightly attracted huge attention and may have pushed aside a fictional film set in peacetime.It was shot entirely on location in Plymouth, much of it at night, using Super-16mm stock. It has now been meticulously restored by the British Film Institute and re-issued in their Flipside series. The event will feature a Q&A with screenwriter Hugh Stoddart.
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