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Midnight Video

An archive of two chaps, a laptop and a mic attempting to unearth the lost, forgotten and overlooked in cinema.

“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.” - Pauline Kael

Midnight Video 36: The Rebel, Fausto 5.0 and Bitter Moon

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Show 36 opens with The Rebel starring Tony Hancock escaping his hum drum existence in  London and hotfooting it to Paris to realise his dream of being an artist.  But is the topsy turvy, shallow world of art ready for Hancock's infantile school?  Or is it Hancock who should be ready?

Fausto 5.0 is another twist in the tale of a man's pact with the devil.  Set against the background of an unfamiliar Barcelona our protagonist's world becomes a hallucinatory nightmare as obsessions become real.

We round things off with the winner of our Polanski listener's vote: Bitter Moon, which has Peter Coyote regale his sexual escapades as a wannabe writer to Hugh Grant, but believe us, there's soooooo much more to this eye-winking romp.

Phurious Phil