Is Drama an exception? Can television drama be effective AND unexpensive? Where is our freedom: in the amount of money or/and in time allocated for the production? Have we reached the point where TV drama is mainly for the viewer’s consumption regardless of content, daring visions from a creator and yes! Art proper to the medium? To what extent do you feel you can “disturb” the viewer? Have we lost sight of the resources proper to our medium? Have we forgotten the special advantages of the television studio? What difference is there left between TV production and cinema production? Have we developed a language proper to the medium? Where are we at: creating? Adapting? Statu quo? SAKUMA, a powerful video drama, brings us into the world of the only man to escape three times from Japanese prisons in the 1930’s. A classical super-production as every public television would dream of... RESERVATIONS proves that one can capture an audience, bring up a very touchy topic and be budget-conscious: a frank and honest statement about sexual attitudes of teenagers n Britain today. THE CONFESSIONS OF JOAN C. is an adaptation by a television director of a theatre play to which he adds is won vision: a strange mixture from on-camera statements as we know them and all these moment left on the cutting-room floor.
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RESERVATIONS was a play commissioned for television from a n emerging young writer who, having previously written for the theatre, came to television concerned lest… -
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This is the story of a man who broke out of prison four times, a feat unmatched in the history of Japan’s penal institutions.Sakuma was imprisoned for crimes that… -
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The monologue is authentic, but the whole setting is totally fictitious: we are a television team visiting the ageing Diva Joan Crawford in her home somewhere between…