Q&A+ DOUBLE BILL: NICK BROOMFIELD
SUN 20 MAR 12.30PM (15)
CURZON SOHO
TICKETS £6/£5 members
Over the past 25 years, Nick Broomfield has established himself as Britain’s best-known and most unflaggingly controversial documentary director (BEHIND THE RENT STRIKE, FETISHES, BIGGIE AND TUPAC, AILEEN: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER). To celebrate the release of the book NICK BROOMFIELD: DOCUMENTING ICONS, edited by Jason Wood and published by Faber, Curzon Soho is pleased to host a special double bill presented by Jason Wood and Nick Broomfield, who will take questions from the audience after the screening.
JUVENILE LIAISON
Co-director: Joan Churchill. 97mins. UK 1975. Beta.
The film the police arrested. JUVENILE LIAISON followed officers of the Blackburn police juvenile liaison scheme as they set about cautioning children who had committed petty crimes (a seven year old caught stealing another boy’s cowboy suit is punished by harsh interrogation in a dark police cell. Another suspect, thought to have stolen a felt-tip pen, might also be involved in a missing apple scandal). The film was withdrawn by the BFI in 1976 and banned for 15 years.
DRIVING ME CRAZY
UK 1988. 85mins. Beta.
A hilarious expose of showbiz. Broomfield’s off-the-wall documentaries frequently get him into trouble either with participants (LILY TOMLIN), officialdom (JUVENILE LIAISON) or avaricious lawyers. But here he gets into a tangle more or less unaided. Engaged to make a film on European impresario Andre Heller’s multimillion-dollar black musical BODY AND SOUL, he gets pitched into the middle of a first-class disaster (…). Derek Malcom, The Guardian
About the book: As more and more feature-length documentaries are crossing over and capturing mainstream cinema audiences, the time is right to survey the career of Britain’s most important exponent of the documentary art, and look back across the extraordinary gallery of individuals who he has doggedly chased down and shot. This is Broomfield in his own words, as frank and revealing as his inimitable films.
Jason Wood is a film journalist and programmer in London. He has also written Contemporary Mexican Cinema for Faber.
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