http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:21:34 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/20/073306.php#comment-5070 My Irish Co-worker told me that this movie was essentially his life. I've been meaning to see it. Maybe I'll look at him funny after I do. 5070@blogcritics.org Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:21:34 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/20/073306.php#comment-5052 A flawed but wonderful movie, and probably the truest rock movie yet in a perverse way -- it also brilliantly captures the surreal horribleness of northern life that brought about that very particular version of Manchester punk in the 70s, where a ranting madman like John the Postman could rub shoulders with the ethereal guitars of the Durretti Column and the lush titanic angst of Joy Division, where the grotty pubs, bleak moors and back-to-back terrace houses were as much part of the iconography of punk life as safety pins, pogoing and lyrics about having "no future". Yep, this movie is "The Way We Were" for folks like me. 5052@blogcritics.org Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:52:32 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/20/073306.php#comment-5045 The Factory story is a great one - don't forget the late great Martin Hannett. 5045@blogcritics.org Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:59:21 EST