Thanks for posting this up. Great to see the old style film show with Bazza on it. Don't get me started on either Ross or Winkleman and the travesty of the film programme now!
Still for your film reviewing stuff listen to Dr. Kermode or watch old clips of Bazza.
I have just been watching film 2010 with Cludia Winklman , within the first twenty minutes I had to switch it off, I remember theses shows with Barry Norman as articulate ,considered and informed presented by a man who was steaped in film lore past and present the current incarnation of this show in 2010 is gimky loud and lacking in any real substance
The quality of this shows prove that a great show has turned into pure tabloid thrash(film 2010)
Film XX was always part of the true quality British broadcasting on the BBC back in the days when it was more interested in programming than spouting out left-wing political propaganda.
Barry Norman was a good film critic but here, like he did sometimes, panned a light hearted movie for no good reason. How can you criticise a movie that was designed to be light comedy and turns out that way? Sometimes he took these kind of movies too seriously.
Norman has admitted that he sometimes got movies wrong, realizing later that he had misappraised them on first viewing.
I think in the early 80s cinema was still thought of by critics as being primarily a very serious medium, and lighter films were often treated as an annoyance. By the end of the 80s, Norman was much more tolerant, for example when praising "Bill and Ted's Escellent Adventure".
btw I wouldn't say he pans the film. He just thinks that the final third goes a bit lowbrow for his tastes, having been very good beforehand. The review is still pretty positive overall.
Well this is from the year I was born, it feels a bit surreal but I love it..Thank you for the upload. :-)
DaveyC95 3 months ago
Do you have film 86 where Bazza reviewed Commando? Thanks for this!!
MarkSkidMcCormick 8 months ago
@MarkSkidMcCormick Sorry this is the only one I got !!!
dee74raz 8 months ago
Trading Places is a classic film.
ninfilms 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this up. Great to see the old style film show with Bazza on it. Don't get me started on either Ross or Winkleman and the travesty of the film programme now!
Still for your film reviewing stuff listen to Dr. Kermode or watch old clips of Bazza.
alphabetaxenonzzzcat 1 year ago
I have just been watching film 2010 with Cludia Winklman , within the first twenty minutes I had to switch it off, I remember theses shows with Barry Norman as articulate ,considered and informed presented by a man who was steaped in film lore past and present the current incarnation of this show in 2010 is gimky loud and lacking in any real substance
The quality of this shows prove that a great show has turned into pure tabloid thrash(film 2010)
Runrome 1 year ago 2
@Runrome Same here. I assumed it was going to be the same format. It's like breakfast tv....
barryw53 1 year ago
Film XX was always part of the true quality British broadcasting on the BBC back in the days when it was more interested in programming than spouting out left-wing political propaganda.
Barry Norman was a good film critic but here, like he did sometimes, panned a light hearted movie for no good reason. How can you criticise a movie that was designed to be light comedy and turns out that way? Sometimes he took these kind of movies too seriously.
maxiboy666 1 year ago
@maxiboy666
Agreed.
Norman has admitted that he sometimes got movies wrong, realizing later that he had misappraised them on first viewing.
I think in the early 80s cinema was still thought of by critics as being primarily a very serious medium, and lighter films were often treated as an annoyance. By the end of the 80s, Norman was much more tolerant, for example when praising "Bill and Ted's Escellent Adventure".
KaitainCPS 1 year ago
@maxiboy666
btw I wouldn't say he pans the film. He just thinks that the final third goes a bit lowbrow for his tastes, having been very good beforehand. The review is still pretty positive overall.
KaitainCPS 1 year ago
Bless you for uploading this! Trading Places is a true, classic of the 80's!
welshfilmbuff 1 year ago