There is nothing else comparable.
This is just one of many predicaments that Marlow faces throughout his time in his life. From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
Potters mind was always "on the boil"...how else could he come up with this electrically charged wonder of the last century ?? During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. I absolutely adore this piece of work.
Five unemployed men would do anything just to have a job in Thatcher's Britain. The man turns out to be a mystery writer, afflicted with a fiedish type of psoriasis, and the opening spy scene is a chapter from a book he is writing. There's no point in reiterating the praise for this miniseries. This is down to the fact that The Singing Detective is a work far greater than anything else; a microcosm of life, love, anger, defeat, consciousness and the sub-conscious. This series deserves to be better known world-wide than it is, and hopefully the DVD set (which includes a director/producer Commentary track for every episode, specials on Dennis Potter, etc.) Dennis Potter's "Singing Detective" in its 1986 TV production, surpasses standard definitions of dramatic entertainment.
I find it amazing that the beautiful Alison Steadman never became the English Catherine Deneuve. 28 out of 30 found this helpful He also is completely overwhelmed with memories from his childhood and growing up amongst a poor, ignorant coal-mining family in the woods of England. They are the elite of the British stage.
The last film I saw I had in fact seen previously, and much less than 18 years before, but I had forgotten it entirely and would not have even realised except for a one memorable detail. The Singing Detective soundtrack was released on vinyl in two different forms: 1986: The Singing Detective (BBC Records CD 608) 1988: The Other Side of the Singing Detective (BBC Records and Tapes BBC CD 708) Later releases on CD are: 2002: (Portugal) Music from "The Singing Detective" and More (Golden Star GSS 5349) (3 CD) Dennis Potter hatte mit seinem Drehbuch für die BBC-Miniserie "The Singing Detective" 1986 einen Riesenerfolg.
On all levels, that is. 21 out of 25 found this helpful His investigation leads to an old nemesis, the Soviet spymaster known only as "Karla". Worst of all, perhaps it's simply not as good as remembered? It has sex, humor, drama, action, detectives, whores, spies Etc. Herausragend in einem hervorragenden Ensemble: der wunderbare Michael Gambon (heute als zweiter "Albus Dumbledore" bekannt). The story certainly is multi layered and fascinating and the acting is superb down to really minor characters. 5 out of 5 found this helpful 5 out of 6 found this helpful Taking nine pivotal ... Stunning visual images (telephone poles become crucifixions along the railway) are frequent.
7 out of 7 found this helpful Etc........in fact everything that constitutes a great reason for looking into a square screen. At certain intervals the characters break out and lip sync to the hit records of the forties. No. Many have called it the best television production ever, and as far as I can tell, they're absolutely correct. Great performances, particularly by Gambon.
The BBC television production of "The Singing Detective" caused a huge stir when it was first broadcast back in 1986, and now it is commonly acknowledged as a classic. Brilliant is not too strong a word to describe this! Detective novelist Philip Marlow (Sir Michael Gambon) suffers from the crippling disease of psoriatic arthritis. The adventures of the Singing Detective are unforgettable. Re-working material from his first novel, "Hide and Seek" (1973), and folding this into a prismatic blend of autobiographical details, popular music and 1940s film noir, Writer Dennis Potter delivered a drama now regarded as a twentieth century masterwork. When you read the screenplay which was published by Faber & Faber you certainly read an interesting story (although somewhat influenced by DH Lawrence) but you are not as overwhelmed as you are when seeing it on screen. Gibbon believes that the root of Marlow's skin disorder is psychological and that he...Writer Philip Marlow is in hospital being treated for a severe skin affliction, something he has suffered from for 25 years but is now worse than it has ever been. Arthur, a sheet music salesman, has an ear for the hit tunes, but nobody will trust it. Never has happened, never will. There's no question that the greatest films of the past 25 years have been TV miniseries, from "I Claudius" to "The Decalogue" to "Nicholas Nickleby" to "The Singing Detective."
Dennis Potter appears everywhere in the plot through his characters. His performance of this really central character was truly remarkable, and it was essential to establishing the basis for the adult Marlow's problems. It's about Potter's childhood, the every day day nitty gritty of writing, a husband/wife can't live with, can't live without'em (Gambon/Suzman) infidelity(Malahide/ Suzman) and something I will not forgive Potter for, the hackneyed scene that never happens in therapy, where the psychiatrist says, "That's it! But soon I fell again into its magical rhythmns, and, mesmerised, have just (with the aid of DVD) consumed the final five hours in a single weekend. If this sounds complicated then we're on the right track, because this is one of Dennis Potter's most detailed narrative constructs. The story asks psychological questions about childhood, humans as sexual beings, the existence of God, and the healing (and destroying) powers of the mind. will make the series better known to people. The murder of a Soviet defector forces his old handler, British spymaster George Smiley, out of retirement. When the piece started slowly, I feared that disappointment indeed awaited.
In the hospital, with Mr Hall and his 'Nurse! The Singing Detective is without doubt the best TV programme and one of the best films or serials I have ever seen. ', yes, then this series has made a tremendous impact. 5 out of 5 found this helpful 7 out of 8 found this helpful
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