Dreams of youth, and nightmares of war.
On the arts pages of the New Statesman this year, you’ll have found dreams of alien life and yellow submarines, and nightmares, of nuclear wars and the terrifying handshake from a bright orange man. Here’s a selection of the best writing on TV and film found in the magazine and website this year.
50 years on, Yellow Submarine tells the story of the Sixties
Yellow Submarine began life late in 1967 as not much more than a contractual obligation. The Beatles had little interest in the making of it, and they barely appear in the movie. But, the movie says far more about them and the decade that they helped to define than they could ever have predicted, writes D. J. Taylor.
Here come the bombs: the making of Threads
“I wanted to show the full horror. I felt that was absolutely my responsibility.”
In 1984, inspired by the leaked “Protect and Survive” films, a BBC team set out to create a relentlessly accurate vision of an atomic bomb landing on Sheffield. Jude Rogers on the nuclear war film that shocked a generation.
Why are film-makers obsessed with the story of doomed British sailor Donald Crowhurst?
Businessman and sailor Donald Crowhurst set out from Teignmouth, Devon, on 31 October 1968, as the last of nine competitors to enter the Sunday Times Golden Globe race for solo, non-stop circumnavigation.
