★★☆☆☆Early on a Thursday morning in the depths of the Buckinghamshire countryside, the Travelling Post Office train en route to London Euston stopped at a red signal. The engineer and train driver Jack Mills were overpowered, with Mills being clubbed by one of the fifteen robbers attacking the train. The carriage holding the valuable packages was manoeuvred to a near by bridge and the bags of money removed. In less than twenty minutes, a hundred and twenty bags were transferred to a waiting truck and the gang escaped with over two and a half million pounds. This was the Great Train Robbery, which would enter legend as one of the classic heists of the 20th century.
- 10/6/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Review Louisa Mellor 18 Dec 2013 - 21:30
The first of two BBC films on the Great Train Robbery is slick stuff, but does it provide enough light and shade?
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 A Robber’s Tale
The Great Train Robbery. With a name like that, it’s no wonder we enjoy retelling this story. Had the 1963 Cheddington Mail Van Raid not been rechristened with such a swashbuckling title, you can bet we wouldn’t be here now, watching the credits roll on another dramatized version of events.
Or more properly, half a dramatized version. The second film in this diptych, A Copper’s Tale, airs tomorrow night and tells the same story from the other side of the thin blue line. Writer Chris Chibnall (Broadchurch, Torchwood) has cleaved the narrative into two neat halves: cops and robbers. In many ways, it’s a swell trick, the novelty of which tilts...
The first of two BBC films on the Great Train Robbery is slick stuff, but does it provide enough light and shade?
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 A Robber’s Tale
The Great Train Robbery. With a name like that, it’s no wonder we enjoy retelling this story. Had the 1963 Cheddington Mail Van Raid not been rechristened with such a swashbuckling title, you can bet we wouldn’t be here now, watching the credits roll on another dramatized version of events.
Or more properly, half a dramatized version. The second film in this diptych, A Copper’s Tale, airs tomorrow night and tells the same story from the other side of the thin blue line. Writer Chris Chibnall (Broadchurch, Torchwood) has cleaved the narrative into two neat halves: cops and robbers. In many ways, it’s a swell trick, the novelty of which tilts...
- 12/18/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
For years, TV made me think you could knock someone out cold and they'd soon recover. Now the Dardenne brothers' new film, The Kid with a Bike, has revived that dramatic tic
Next week the Dardenne brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc, are opening their latest film in the UK: Le Gamin au Vélo, or The Kid with a Bike. A young boy in care makes a desperate attempt to find his dad, and the beloved bike he is sure must still be in the father's possession. These film-makers, double Palme d'Or winners at Cannes for Rosetta (1999) and The Child (2005), have created some classic social realist dramas in the past, and The Kid with a Bike is a winningly forthright, heartfelt movie that I reviewed on its Cannes festival premiere last year and will return to again next Friday.
But here I feel I have to notice that once again, the Dardennes...
Next week the Dardenne brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc, are opening their latest film in the UK: Le Gamin au Vélo, or The Kid with a Bike. A young boy in care makes a desperate attempt to find his dad, and the beloved bike he is sure must still be in the father's possession. These film-makers, double Palme d'Or winners at Cannes for Rosetta (1999) and The Child (2005), have created some classic social realist dramas in the past, and The Kid with a Bike is a winningly forthright, heartfelt movie that I reviewed on its Cannes festival premiere last year and will return to again next Friday.
But here I feel I have to notice that once again, the Dardennes...
- 3/15/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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