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5 set 2002 · Friendship’s Death is a peculiar, often haunting, little low budget film financed by the British Film Institute. It is very similar to the Brazilian Man Facing Southeast (1986), which came out around the same time – both films feature a man trying to decide whether an ambiguous but charismatic stranger’s claims to be from another planet are true or not.
The 'action' (all talk, really) of Friendship's Death is confined to a tiny cast and a few interior sets, with every exterior shot lifted straight from public domain file footage. Yet writer/director Peter Wollen has somehow made two films, each with their own modestly grand idea. On the one hand, it is an outsider's political thought-piece on ...
Stars Tilda Swinton and Bill Paterson, along with producer Rebecca O'Brien and cinematographer Witold Stok join BFI curators Will Massa and Jo Botting to tal...
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5 giorni fa · Friendship's Death. Tilda Swinton plays an extra-terrestrial android discussing life’s big questions with a British war correspondent in this unique sci-fi by influential film theorist Peter Wollen. Science Fiction 1987 72 mins. Director: Peter Wollen.
20 giu 2021 · Peter Wollen’s newly restored feature film reminds us of a time when theory and practice came together in the cinema, argues Martin Hall Friendship’s Death, Peter Wollen’s 1987 feature about an alien landing in Amman, Jordan during the Black September conflict between the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Jordan in 1970, is being re-released in 4K by the British Film Institute ...
Friendship's Death. Directed by: Peter Wollen. Starring: Bill Paterson, Tilda Swinton. Genres: Science Fiction, War, Chamber Film. Rated the #230 best film of 1987.
