Search: Starring Leonard Rossiter

The long wordless opening of 2001 remains one of the most beautiful sequences on film.

Kubrick badly misses the mark with this film, not in quality, but by a whole decade. It simply does not fit into the 1970s.

The fashions may have come and gone since John Schlesinger commited Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's story of a young man torn between his family and the future to film but Billy Liar is still suprisingly light on his feet 50 years down the line.

Schlesinger's North is constructed in smudgy shades of grey. Rain falls heavily; steam billows up from unseen trains; the streets are always wet, sometimes bright cobbles, sometimes just dirt.

The film is directed with an air of dignity and the performances are deserving of eternal praise, but as a child of the movies, I was sucked helplessly into a comatose state of boredom.

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