The Firm/Elephant
by Alan Clarke
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Actor: Andrew Wilde, Charles Lawson, Gary Oldman, Lesley Manville, Philip DavisDirector: Alan Clarke
Brand: Ryko Distribution
Cinematographer: Ben Philpott
Cinematographer: John Ward
Cinematographer: Philip Dawson
Producer: Danny Boyle
Producer: David M. Thompson
Writer: Al Ashton
Writer: Bernard MacLaverty
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Blue Underground
Movie Reviews of The Firm/Elephant
Movie Review: O.K. Not as Good as Green St. Hooligans
Summary: 3 Stars
I thought the story line was good, but lacked virtual action. Gary Oldman played a great part like he always does
Summary of The Firm/Elephant
His vision exposed a real world of raw life like no others. His career inspired a group of actors, writers and directors that changed movies forever. In these two acclaimed dramas from the late Alan Clarke, experience the unsparing work of the director The London Observer still calls "the greatest British filmmaker of his generation."THE FIRM: Gary Oldman (SID & NANCY, JFK) gives a blistering performance as Bex Bissell, a middle-class family man who also leads a violent gang of soccer hooligans. Philip Davis (VERA DRAKE) co-stars in this scorching drama directed by Clarke that critics have called a modern-day A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
ELEPHANT: In the film that The Village Voice hails as "Clarke's masterpiece" and would become the direct inspiration for Gus Van Sant's award-winning movie of the same name, Clarke and producer Danny Boyle (TRAINSPOTTING, 28 DAYS LATER) explore the political violence of Northern Ireland via the stark and brutal depiction of eighteen! separatist murders.
The Firm and Elephant are two of Clarke's most interesting films and perhaps the best evidence of a surrealist streak often noted by his contemporaries. The Firm (1998) stars Gary Oldman in a dazzling performance as a London realtor, Bex, whose hobby is soccer hooliganism. Surrounded by other middle-class mates with nice cars, homes, and families, Bex is essentially a gang ringleader who exchanges violent hostilities with another gang of even better-dressed, better-spoken London soccer fans. Clarke's images of grown men, with lives of real responsibility, beating each other's brains in is too bizarre to shake off. From the same year is Clarke's short, Elephant, in which a wordless series of vignettes about shootings take on a ritual, almost musical, form. --Tom Keogh
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