Clarke’s directing is definitely getting better, and this is acted the hell out of in the same way many of these tele-plays were. But what it gets right in depicting…
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Goodnight Albert 1968
My favourite Clarke tele-play so far. Quietly heartbreaking in its own right, and a bitter reminder of how much we’ve lost as our industrial communities have ebbed away.
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The Fifty-Seventh Saturday 1968
Just fine, but wistful Brief Encounter-style romance doesn’t really suit Clarke.
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The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel 1969
Always quite annoying whenever I take the train somewhere and bump into a bunch of Ingmar Bergman characters.
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Sovereign's Company 1970
Clarke’s first major work in my view, depicting some of his pet themes of the crushing weight of patriarchal institutions, and personal alienation, with a stripped-back claustrophobic style.
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The Hallelujah Handshake 1970
An interesting and progressive character piece about a troubled, mentally ill man, and Clarke is starting to toy with those tracking shots he’d become so well known for.
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Under the Age 1972
I can’t speak really speak about how well it represents its central trans character, but it’s pretty quietly sinister as a teleplay, even if it’s a bit of a formal…
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