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The Review - AT THE MOVIES with WILLIAM HALL
Published: 31 January 2008

Pick of the Indies

KENTISH Town director Ken Loach’s consideration of the political struggles in Ireland during the early part of the 20th century is being screened next week at the Renoir in Bloomsbury.
The Wind That Shakes The Barley is featured by the London Socialist Film Co-op on February 10, with a talk afterwards by a Sinn Fein councillor Cionnaith O’Suilleabhain.
The same group are also showing two wonderful films in March: Yoav Segal’s Battle of Cable Street and Margaret Dickinson’s Memories of a Future. Margaret lives in South End Green and her film tells the story of International Brigaders in the Spanish Civil War. She is joined afterwards for a discussion to include writer Michael Rosen.
The Camden Town-based company Movie Mail are releasing two fantastic DVDs next week. The London Nobody Knows, a 1967 documentary by Norman Cohen, was screened last year at the South Bank and I was thrilled to see snap shots of Camden Town in the 1960s. Narrated by James Mason, it’s based on a tour of London by historian Geoffrey Fletcher. There is footage that shows off the Roundhouse and Stables Market, and the old Bedford Theatre at the south end of the high street. The second offering is the bizarre Les Bicyclettes de Belsize (Douglas Hickox, 1969). A short musical based in Hampstead, it tells the love story of a man infatuated by a model he spots on a billboard in the village.
More details at www. moviemail-online.co.uk
DAN CARRIER

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