Billy Liar - Retrospective " Bradford Yorkshire"
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- Tragi-comic misadventures of a young man who invents a fantasy world as cover for his troubles and dreary middle-class existence in sixties Yorkshire.
Billy Liar was always a terrific film, but like so many of its kitchen-sink contemporaries (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving) it has actually grown in substance and depth since its release. Part of the reason is the extensive use of on-location filming all these movies utilised: a post-war industrial landscape long since lost and therefore all the more vivid in its posterity. But where Billy Liar gets a bigger march on its predecessors - whether by intent or accident - is that it captures this landscape on the cusp of the swinging sixties, when architecture, culture, leisure and morality were all rapidly changing. In doing so it heralds many of the themes and issues that were to dominate western culture for the remainder of the 20th Century: pop culture, advertising, media obsession, celebrity, race relations and fantasy lifestyles.
My all-time favourite film which captures the early 1960s perfectly when towns and cities were changing rapidly, as were attitudes in society. Tom Courtenay's performance was perfect, as were all of the supporting cast, who probably realised that they were making cinematic history.
This Brit-American, an "Anglophile", loves this great film and has seen it a couple of times, big Tom Courtenay fan as well! Loved him in the great romantic epic, award winning, Dr. Zhivago, with beautiful Julie Christie another fan of hers! Saw that beautiful movie six times in a row as a teenager in the 60s! Thanks! Also, love the wonderful movie, "Fast Lady" with Julie and the great Stanley Baxter, very funny movie, too! Cheers from Yankee New England where we still have strong historical and cultural ties to the UK ever since the 1600s/1700s, the American Revolution and our hard won independence! Our motherland and our strongest ally today! ♥💙🍺🫖🌈
An absolute classic. Tom Courtney couldnt have been a better choice for this role.Even now years after the event it is so fresh and very funny. Hopefully all kids will laugh at Billy because there is so much of all of us in him.
Brilliant, Thank You Keith Waterhouse
I watched this film 🍿 at school. Don’t ask me why lol. Back in 1986 it was circa only 20 years old at the time. It seemed so old at the time.
Top film my favourite !!
I sure would love to watch it - looks so charming !
I can't think of any way at all in which this film could have been better. Schlesinger captured an extremely conventional slice of northern life perfectly in 'A Kind of Loving', but 'Billy Liar' had even more. The suffocating limits of life countered by a comical escapism. These are films which are totally immersive, and completely believable. For the same production time, 'Dr No' looks horrendously dated and totally ridiculous in comparison. Dealing with reality is far harder than it looks, and is endlessly useful. It teaches us about ourselves, it doesn't act as an anaesthetic.
God I Loved that Great Movie
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Dr Zhivago.
Just Loved it.
One of the best novels.
"You an' yer bloody oranges!"
No but what about that Julie Christie eh? Absolutely gorgeous woman.
Right at the end there, in the old Exchange Station, he walks past my milk machine. Mine.
The railway station at the end was Marylebone, not Bradford Exchange...
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Just spoil a tender memory why don't you!
@@alftupper9359 Sorry, Alf, but the guys do say that at the end of the clip .....
Yeah it's supposed to be Bradford but they shot it at Marylebone.
Yes it was the olden days but it was also the golden days. Bradford has turned into gangsta land lolll
Don't forget Helen Fraser who looked gorgeous in Billy's fantasies in her sexy getup 😜
It's called 'Hollywood UK'; British film in the Sixties. It was originally on in five parts on BBC2 I think in the 90s, you can watch the whole lot on youtube in about 10 different parts
At 3:02 you can see Manchester's abysmal City Tower being built.
I work in City Tower, it's great. The views are amazing.
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Yeah, I used to work on the 20th floor. The views often made up for the fact that I was working in an enormous ugly USB stick full of people.
That made me laugh, I suppose it does look like a USB stick, but I do have a soft spot for the place. The way they built the tower and hotel in conjunction always reminds me of something out of Thunderbirds.
@c0bbl3rs I've had the same experiences too. I'm working at Arndale House at the moment (you don't see that particular building in the film even though some of Liz's scenes were shot on Broadway) Westfield have finally got their finger out so there'll be a shopping centre in a couple of years time if we're lucky. I took a few photos before the buildings were demolished.
There's allus been Ol'royd tat' Oldroyd Mill, and by ell' there allus will be, !
Bradford looks better back then.Its a right dump now.
I don't suppose you happen to have the rest of this documentary, do you?
If so, could you put it up
It would be great to be able to see the rest of it.
Steve what was the name of the documentary that you taped this from. Obviously I missed it. Didnt know it existed until tonight. Thanks for the upload. Great to see the "then and now" clips of your home town : )
@steve01274 Being from Wakefield, I wouldn't have minded seeing the 'This Sporting Life' part; or the whole thing in fact.
I don't suppose you know what the program was called do you?
Hillcrest is in Shipley.
Shipley is in Bradford. It's just a suburb, not a separate town.
@@DamnDealDone
The words 'splitting' & 'hairs' spring to mind. If I had said Bradford then someone probably would've said Shipley
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dvd sleeve synopsis rudely regards to its Bradford location as "Northern". after losing count eddie london stobarting had it been set there we would have been treated to all the landmarks plus postal codes
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Julie Christie was a babe. probably still is.