Return to Waterloo/Come Dancing
by Ray Davies
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Actor: Dominique Barnes, Joan Blackman, Sallie Anne Field, Sally Anne, Tim RothDirector: Ray Davies
Writer: Ray Davies
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), PCM Stereo; English (Original Language), PCM Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-03-09
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Return to Waterloo/Come Dancing
Movie Review: Well done Kinks tunes
Summary: 5 Stars
Return to Waterloo is a terrific soundtrack but a somewhat strange, artsy movie. The second part of the DVD consists of late '80s Kinks videos: above average video, awesome music and some of Ray's better songwriting. Production quality is outstanding, and the music is wonderful. Watch the movie when you're pensive; watch the videos when you're in a party mood.
Summary of Return to Waterloo/Come Dancing
Ray Davies of the Kinks, well-respected as one of rock's best storytellers, makes his filmmaking debut in "Return to Waterloo" (1984, 60 min.), a unique synthesis of music, video and cinema. Davies' haunting songs, unavailable on any Kinks album, take "The Traveller" on a suspenseful journey through his imagination as he confronts reality and fantasy, love and violence. Songs: Return to Waterloo, Ladder of Success, Going Solo, Missing Persons, Sold Me Out, Lonely Hearts, Not Far Away, Expectations, Return to Waterloo Reprise. Also includes "Come Dancing With The Kinks" (1986, 35 min.), a compilation of eight unforgettable music videos. Songs: Come Dancing, Predictable, Lola (Live), State of Confusion, Don't Forget to Dance, You Really Got Me (Live), Do It Again, Celluloid Heroes (Live).Ray Davies, singer-songwriter-leader of the Kinks, has long been one of rock music's strongest storytellers. His only film, this overlooked hour-long rock opera, feels like a slightly bleaker extension on the same themes Davies once explored on the timeless Kinks album, The Village Green Preservation Society. Told entirely in the mind of a middle-age commuter (a solemn Kenneth Colley) during a train trip he takes every day, the film both laments the passing of old-fashioned English traditions and bashes them for the complacency they've caused in modern life. This short is essentially a concept album put to film: lyrics take the place of dialogue, and rhythm and melody set the dynamics. The tunes (unavailable on any Kinks record) are easily the strongest output of the band's '80s material. Davies ambitiously chooses a nonlinear structure, shows no fear in painting our protagonist as a possible rapist and/or pedophile, and creates a haunting mini-masterpiece. It feels like Dennis Potter blended with The Wall minus the latter's excruciating pretentiousness and bombast. Hard-core Kinks fans will also appreciate the anthology of '80s rock videos, Come Dancing with the Kinks that accompanies the film. The eight songs include "Come Dancing," "Predictable," "Lola" (live), "State of Confusion," "Don't Forget to Dance," "You've Really Got Me" (live), "Do It Again," and "Celluloid Heroes" (live). --Dave McCoy
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