Quadrophenia (Roddam, 1979):
Portobello Pop-Up Cinema, under the Westway, 3 Acklam Rd, W10
Tonight's screening, which is introduced by the film's director Franc Roddam, is in aid of Cooke's Pie & Mash shop, still under threat from Shepherd's Bush council who appear determined to allow a property developer to demolish
the historic Goldhawk Road row of shops next to the Market - despite
their actions having been ruled unlawful at the High Court. It comes after numerous expressions of support from the community in W12
and from further afield for their fight for survival, with a horde of mods descending on the Bush earlier this year.
Chicago Reader review:
'Franc Roddam's 1979 film of the Who's rock opera aligns sociological
observation and romantic fantasy to create an extravagant, involving
teenpic with a responsible intellectual grounding. The dark, grimy
visual style meets the Who's naive plotting straight on to create a kind
of mythic realism”stirring archetypal situations clothed in
pseudodocumentary grit. The hero, a jumpy young mod played with
commanding intensity by Phil Daniels, achieves one moment of perfect
bliss and then self-destructs, a motif straight out of 19th-century
romantic fiction' Dave Kehr
Here is the Brighton club scene.
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