Fat man on a beach & other unfortunates
There’s a BS Johnson night at the NFT Tuesday fortnight (16 June): Tonight we celebrate his unique talent with a diverse selection of his best films. The programme includes Johnson’s bleak, painfully funny contemplation of the human condition, You’re Human Like the Rest of Them (1967); the notoriously misunderstood Paradigm (1969); Johnson’s splendidly unrehearsed meditation […]
This is England: An interview with Helen Walsh
There’s something fascinating about growing up in a small three bedroomed semi with paper-thin walls where you can hear everything that goes on, the arguments, the sex – or lack of; you live in each other’s pockets, there is physically no room for privacy and yet four members of a family living in such confined and intimate conditions can all lead radically secret lives. To me, the families that are most dysfunctional are those which appear, at least at surface level to be the most together.
Alan Kelly talks to Once Upon a Time in England author Helen Walsh.