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19th January 2007 10:56 PM
Daethgod got my hands on this

is it in circulation

if i could be bothered to rip it, would anyone want to trade ?

at the start it shows Mick and Keef at a pinao, with Keef playing and Mick singing Elvis' Teddy Bear.

heres a rundown:

ROCK CITY,' A SCRAPBOOK OF LONDON POP


By JANET MASLIN
Published: July 24, 1981

''ROCK CITY'' is a wild and woolly scrapbook of London's pop scene in its heyday, which the movie defines as the era between 1964 and 1973. It's a collection of clips, randomly assembled, featuring just about everybody who was anybody in those days. Bopping down memory lane, the viewer encounters Rod Stewart, Pete Townshend, Cream, the Rolling Stones in loud outfits and war paint, and Otis Redding, who offers a version of ''Satisfaction'' that puts even the Stones to shame.

The movie, which opens today at the Harold Clurman Theater, was made in 1973. It's certainly dated, but that's just the point. With no attempt to cast light or impose order on his material, the director, Peter Clifton, simply assembled views of some of his favorite performers doing favorite things. For Ike and Tina Turner, that means a lewdness that leaves so little to the imagination that it's halfway funny; for Cat Stevens, it means posing artily in an all-black outfit in an all-white room. Mr. Stevens's song ''Father and Son'' is illustrated by a pantomime chess game between an old man and a boy, in an arch fashion that has mercifully gone out of style.

For Jimi Hendrix, it's performing those special, smutty guitar pyrotechnics that made him such a legend. For Joe Cocker, it's surrounding himself with so many backup singers that it's hard to pick Mrs. Turner or Rita Coolidge out of the crowd. The footage of Mr. Cocker comes out of another film, ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen.'' But most of Mr. Clifton's material appears to be too offbeat or secondary to have turned up elsewhere.

His glimpse of the Stones is particularly memorable. At around the time of the ''Satanic Majesties'' album, they cavort before the camera in a style that combines mugging with the occult. To songs like ''We Love You'' and ''2000 Light Years From Home,'' they stage a mock trial, featuring some wicked allusions to their own legal problems of the time. Anyone who doesn't remember, say, that Marianne Faithfull was once alleged to have been found on the Stones premises wearing nothing but a bearskin rug will be baffled, if not bored, to see a rug unrolled with Mick Jagger inside. This is all interesting in its way, but it's not for curiosity seekers, it's for hard-core fans.

Also on the bill are the Animals, Blind Faith, Pink Floyd and the Faces. In the Faces, Mr. Stewart's performance is photographed from such an inconvenient angle that his face is frequently obscured by cymbals, and the camera appears to be gazing up at the underside of his chin.

Ah, well, those were the days before perfectionism set in, among either the musicians or those who photographed them. A viewer might wonder about some of Mr. Clifton's judgments -where are the Kinks, for example? -but not about the evocativeness of his souvenir. Janet Maslin

Those Were the Days

ROCK CITY, directed and produced by Peter Clifton; photography by Richard Mordaunt, Peter Whitehead, Graham Lind, Michael Cooper, Peter Neal, Bavin Cook, Ernest Vincze, Ivan Strasburg, Charles Stewart and Bruce Logan; edited by Thomas Schwaln; a World Film Serv- ices Ltd. production; a Columbia picture. Running time: 104 minutes. This film is not rated. At the Harold Clurman Theater, 412 West 42d Street.

WITH: the Rolling Stones, Eric Burdon and the Animals, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Otis Redding, Peter Townshend, Cream, Steve Win- wood, Blind Faith, Cat Stevens, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Donovan, Joe Cocker, Tina Turner, the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, Pink Floyd and Rod Stewart and the Faces.
19th January 2007 10:59 PM
Daethgod info on Peter Clifton :

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20604616-5006023,00.html

Search for new Don

Glenn Mitchell

October 19, 2006 12:00am
Article from: Herald-Sun


A NATIONAL talent search of cricket clubs is under way to find someone to play young Don Bradman in an international movie on the infamous Bodyline series.
The person chosen could star alongside Oscar winner Russell Crowe who is being sought for the role of Bill Woodfull, the Australian captain during the 1932-33 Ashes series.

It is understood producers have sought Crowe for the Woodfull role in the film The Bloody Ashes.

It is believed Crowe has indicated his interest, but the film's producers refused to confirm this.

Holly Valance is expected to be sought for the role of Bradman's wife, Jessie.

The film is being co-produced by Australian film-maker Peter Clifton and Matthew Vaughn, who produced the smash hit Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

The person chosen to play Bradman, who was 22 during the Bodyline series that rocked relations between Australia and Britain, will receive six months' intensive acting lessons.

An Australian casting agency has been commissioned for the search.

"We have to have characters who can play cricket properly, as well as being good actors, so we can achieve the authenticity needed for this film," Mr Clifton, the film's co-writer, said.

"Otherwise, we believe there would be a serious flaw in the movie if our actors couldn't play cricket," he said.

Another casting agency in Britain is searching for actors/cricketers to play the English captain Douglas Jardine and his star fast bowler Harold Larwood.

Mr Vaughn, who is financing the film, is believed to have contacted several directors, but the favourite is a recent winner of the best director Oscar. Mr Clifton would not give details.

Mr Clifton, who wrote the film with his long-time writing partner Michael Thomas, said the decision to search cricket clubs for the young Bradman role came after lengthy discussions with former Australian cricket captain Ian Chappell.

"He said one of the failings of the Bodyline series shown on television several years ago was that none of the actors looked like they could actually play the game," he said.

"It's not going to be easy, but we want absolute authenticity in our cricket scenes so it is extremely important that we cast the right person to play Don Bradman at 22 years of age and that is someone who can act and bat."

It is understood the producers will approach several former Australian Test players to help coach the new Bradman in the Don's batting style.

Other actors will receive intensive training in bowling and fielding.

Mr Clifton said: "We want to tell the story warts and all and that includes the fact that Bradman really only ever had one true friend -- the great Archie Jackson, who died of tuberculosis when he was 22.

"Numerous sources have told us Bradman never had any true male friends apart from Jackson and once he died, his wife Jesse was his only real friend."

Mr Clifton is famous for rock documentaries such as Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains the Same and America: Live at Central Park.

He also made the most famous film clip of the Rolling Stones' performance of Jumpin' Jack Flash. He has produced many other Rolling Stones clips and videos.

In 2003 he wrote and produced, with Mr Thomas, his first feature film, The Night we Called it a Day, the story of Frank Sinatra's turbulent 1974 tour of Australia.

Shooting of The Bloody Ashes is expected to start next year.
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