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ALAN CLARKE COLLECTION
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Four bleak films from the late director Alan Clarke that depict England from     the bleak, nihilistic viewpoint of its society's dregs are featured in this      long-overdue boxed set. Two versions of Scum are included, the original    78-minute cut produced in 1977 for the BBC and a more graphic 96-minute edit   from 1979. Scum follows a reform school punk (Ray Winstone) as he        trudges through a system that only makes him more vicious. Made in          Britain (1982, 76 mins.) is a grim, confrontational look at disaffected       youth, with a young Tim Roth (in his screen debut) as a skinhead with a        swastika tattooed on his forehead who lashes out at everything and everyone    around him. The Firm (1988, 70 mins.) looks at the violence associated   with English soccer and one man's attempt to unite the notorious fighting        hooligans for the European Championships in 1988. Stars Gary Oldman. The       made-for-TV short, Elephant (1988, 39 mins.), produced by Danny Boyle    (Trainspotting), examines a series of violent, unsolved killings in      Northern Ireland. Also includes Director: Alan Clarke, a 53-minute         Alan Clarke---Great Britain---1977-1991---412 mins.
FIRM / ELEPHANT ( CLARKE )
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Two extraordinary, brutally perceptive works by unheralded British filmmaker     Alan Clarke. The Firm (1988, 70 mins.) explores the aggressive character   of masculine identity through the figure of Bex (Gary Oldman), a real estate     agent and leader of a band (or "Firm") of soccer hooligans. Pestered into      getting revenge on a rival gang, Bex unleashes a more coolly calculating form  of vigilante violence, which Clarke explores in his characteristically bleak   and unsparing fashion. Elephant (1988, 39 mins.) is a raw and              astonishing experimental work that depicts a series of 18 violent killings in  Northern Ireland.  Formally rigorous and eerily hypnotic, the film is an       obvious influence on Gus van Sant's own Elephant in the way that it      coolly and disturbingly questions our ability to fathom human motivation.        Alan Clarke---Great Britain---1988---109 mins.
MADE IN BRITAIN ( CLARKE )
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Tim Roth makes a brilliant, lasting impression in his debut performance as a     skinny, snarling skinhead with a swastika tattooed between his eyes. Produced    for television by the uncompromising Alan Clarke, Made in Britain tracks   violent, 16-year-old Trevor's (Roth) movements through the Thatcher-era        British justice system. Charged with assaulting a Pakistani store owner, the   vile but intelligent Trevor is unrepentant, and his social worker's (Eric      Richard) efforts to reform the teen are met with a scathing, eerily convincing   assessment of a repressive system that does not allow dissent.                 Alan Clarke---Great Britain---1982---76 mins.
PUNKS & HOOLIGANS 2 FOR 1
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Three bleak films from (not so) merry old England by Alan Clarke. The         Firm (1988, 70 mins.) explores the aggressive character of masculine          identity through the figure of Bex (Gary Oldman), a real estate agent and        leader of a band of soccer hooligans. Pestered into getting revenge on a rival gang, Bex unleashes a more coolly calculating form of vigilante violence,      which Clarke explores in his characteristically unsparing fashion.             Elephant (1988, 39 mins.) is a raw and astonishing experimental work       that depicts a series of 18 violent killings in Northern Ireland. Formally     rigorous and eerily hypnotic, the film is an obvious influence on Gus van      Sant's own Elephant in the way that it coolly and disturbingly questions our ability to fathom human motivation. Lastly, Tim Roth makes a brilliant       debut in Made in Britain (1982, 76 mins.) as a skinny, snarling skinhead with a swastika tattooed between his eyes. Produced for television, the film   tracks the violent 16-year-old's movements through the Thatcher-era British    Alan Clarke---Great Britain---1982-1988---185 mins.
SCUM ( ALAN CLARKE )
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Two versions of the notorious 1979 prison film that raised the hackles of BBC    television officials for its bleak, uncompromising view of the Borstal system.   Ray Winstone stars as Colin, a reform-school inmate who suffers at the hands     of fellow prisoners and sadistic guards. In his effort to scamper to the top   of the heap, Colin violently disposes of his rivals in a manner that parallels the violent inner-workings of the reform system. "The most raw and powerful    British film ever made" (DVD Review).                                      Alan Clarke---Great Britain---1979---96 mins./78 mins.