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Stars of the Roller State Disco (TV) is a film directed by Alan Clarke with Perry Benson, Cathy Murphy, Paul McKenzie, Bernice Rowe .... Year: 1984. Original title: Stars of the Roller State Disco. Synopsis: Unemployed youngsters spend their days at the roller disco of the title, circling round and round, before being called to take up low-paid jobs as they become available. They leave the ...
Stars of the Roller State Disco is a great title for a film. A great title. While the film lives up to the title in concept, it is like a cross between Rollerball and Blue Peter, it does not live up to it in execution. Alan Clarke's direction is superb, his long 360 degree takes are pretty spectacular for a television director, but the film never comes together.
This quirky, quasi-futuristic satire of Thatcher's Britain is a seldom seen curio of Alan Clarke's that I've been wanting to see for ages. I first heard of it back in '99/'00 when I was working in a dole office. One older guy that worked there would very often regale me with tales of his younger days in the '70s and '80s.
26. Feb. 2022 · Video-shot on studio sets, Stars of the Roller State Disco borders on science fiction of the dystopian variety. Unemployed youngsters spend their days at the roller disco of the title, circling round and round, before being called to take up low-paid jobs as they become available.
Stars of the Roller State Disco: Directed by Alan Clarke. With Perry Benson, Cathy Murphy, Paul McKenzie, Bernice Rowe. Unemployed youngsters spend their days at the roller disco of the title, circling round and round, before being called to take up low-paid jobs as they become available. They leave the building in a wash of light, though we do not go through that door with them. For others it ...
8. Dez. 2010 · Stars of the Roller State Disco & WOGAN intro - BBC1984
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The young people institutionalized in a Depression style marathon of constant roller skating to wallpaper disco are almost always on the move, but rarely get anywhere. Details build up an Orwellian regime presided over by a Margaret Thatcher style bureaucrat but our main character Carly seems on one level to have become so comfortable with this regime that he really doesn't want to accept ...
