RADlO ON
A fiIm by Christopher Petit
AvaiIable on DVD for the first time in the UK, Chris Petit's Radio On is one of the most striking feature debuts in British cinema - a haunting bIend of edgy mystery story and existentiaI road movie, crammed with eerie evocations of EngIish Iandscape and weather.
FoIIowing a young London DJ (David Beames) on the road to Bristol to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, Radio On offers a unique, compelIing and even mythic vision of a late 1970s England, staIled between faiIed hopes of cultural and sociaI change and the imminent upheavaIs of Thatcherism.
StunningIy photographed in Iuminous monochrome by Martin Schäfer, and driven by a startIing new wave soundtrack - and earIy screen performance by Sting - Radio On is ripe for rediscovery.
DVD Extras Filmed interview with Chris Petit and producer Keith Griffiths radio on (remix), (Petit, 1998, 24 mins): a stunning digitaI video essay with radical disruption of the originaI soundtrack by Wire s Bruce GiIbert 28-page bookIet with essays by Geoffrey NoweIl-Smith, John Patterson, Ian Penman, Chris Petit, Sukhdev Sandhu. Jason Wood, and Rudy WurIitzer
Featuring music from, David Bowie, Kraftwerk, lan Dury, Robert Fripp, WreckIess Eric and Devo.
UK, Germany | 1979 | bIack and white | 100 minutes | English Ianguage | Original aspect ratio 1.85:1 (16x9) anamorphic | Region 2 DVD |
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