Making movies in England
Michael Wood, 13 September 1990
My indecision is final
by Jake Eberts and Terry Ilott.
Faber, 678 pp., £17.50, June 1990,0 571 14888 3 Show More
by Jake Eberts and Terry Ilott.
Faber, 678 pp., £17.50, June 1990,
“... Now we must choose, a character in Beckett says, between ruin and collapse. Could we not, another character wonders, somehow combine them? Goldcrest Films, in the mid-Eighties, after days of great splendour, seems to have pulled off this melancholy mixture. The company that gave us Ghandi and The Killing Fields and collected 19 Oscars, then brought us Revolution and Absolute Beginners, exhausted its credit (in several senses) and was bought out ... ”