Billesley Lane Alotments

[fonejacker4life]

Who cares are councilers are clowns and who cares about the land build more pubs or more mcdonalds

I hope they get the application

The council are cowboys

[rcbigwood]

I don't play golf, so don't have an axe to grind, but stop your bellyaching! It's the golf club's land, they should be allowed to do what they want with it. Stop lazing about and get a job you wasters, and use your gardens! If the council want to give you an allotment, they should give you their land, say Billesley Common.

[splodge13]

ghostdaz must be a jealous opposition councillor. definately, a jealous person anyway. i strongly suspect that your name isn't daz as well.

[GhostDaz]

Excellent, you're not very clever are you?

[gho5tinthemachine]

A real departure this for Mullaney. Gone are the vibrant splashes of colour that was "graffiti in Moseley" and this time he's eschewed the action sequences that made "Moseley Road tram depot offices" the modern day classic it is. Instead, in this pared back production Mullaney uses the starkness of the imagery and mixes them with experimental sound techniques to highlight the fearlessness of his reporting. A triumph, both for ethics and for cinema.

[numberstation]

Hmm,he should develope this further,with possible use of black and white film,hopefully incorpoating Eisensteins theory of montage.But I agree,his obvious referral to cinematic Formalism is refreshing.

[enormotronicuberman]

The alternate ending where Mullaney and his guest go to ground in a shed and take on the Police in scenes reminiscent of the fall of the Berlin wall, should be seen to be believed.

His next project is sure to be equally interesting, a re-working of his classic struggle to keep the public toilets in Moseley open. It is tentatively titled "My Right To Shit In Public".

[GhostMikel]

A script gritty enough to be by Alan Bennett combined with the documentary style of Michael Moore make this an instant cult classic. Movie references abound from an oblique homage to Steve Sekely's "The Day of the Triffids" to Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket.

Following on from "graffiti in Moseley" - inspired by the 1963 cult classic "The Warriors" - this is a welcome addition to the Mullaney oeuvre.

[GhostDaz]

Pt 3. Many viewers will not be surprised how Mullnaney once again subverts the medium of film by shockingly drawing our attention to the fact that once again we are visitors in his world, welcome visitors but visitors none the less. In a brave gesture Mullaney points out of the screen to demonstrate that his reach spreads beyond Moseley and onto the very Internet itself.

Overall an informative and sensitive representation of an individuals fight against the jackboot of organised golf.

[mullaney3]

This is so, so funny. My jaw is hurting from laughing so much.

[GhostDaz]

Pt 2. Mullaney has forsaken the full tilt antics that have become his hallmark in favour of a more cerebral talking heads format. This is a bonus to a film that's story line is often baffling. Few directors can take on a subject matter that twists and turns within the complicated machinations of big government and still engage the viewer. In this case he succeeds to draw viewers into the murky world of planning and leaves us feeling a little poorer for the exploitation of horticulture.

[GhostDaz]

Pt 1. Another tour de force from Cllr Mullaney, once again breaking down the boundaries implicit between community and its champion. The sweeping vistas of Billesley Allotments are reminiscent of Pollacks cinematography in Out of Africa though it would be simplistic to say that the film is defined by its use of landscape. One can only hope that the worthy cause highlighted in this nine minute epic is not lost in the rampant characterisation.