Lady Mary has finally stopped wearing black but there was plenty of darkness in documentaries about a London brothel and Paul Gascoigne's battle with booze
Downton Abbey (ITV) | ITVPlayer
Sex: My British Job (C4) | 4oD
Being Paul Gascoigne (ITV) | ITVPlayer
It's 1922 at Downton Abbey and Matthew still appears to be dead. For those of us who had hoped that the Christmas special car crash would turn out to have been either a bad dream or some sort of jolly hoax, the first episode of the fourth series brought only disappointment.
There were, however, narrative compensations. Nanny West was sacked for class hatred of a child. And Cora was faced with the unimaginable prospect of having to dress herself, as O'Brien had done a bunk. Thankfully Anna stepped into the breach, but the mere suggestion of the countess getting into a frock unaided accounted for a large share of the opener's dramatic tension.
Downton Abbey (ITV) | ITVPlayer
Sex: My British Job (C4) | 4oD
Being Paul Gascoigne (ITV) | ITVPlayer
It's 1922 at Downton Abbey and Matthew still appears to be dead. For those of us who had hoped that the Christmas special car crash would turn out to have been either a bad dream or some sort of jolly hoax, the first episode of the fourth series brought only disappointment.
There were, however, narrative compensations. Nanny West was sacked for class hatred of a child. And Cora was faced with the unimaginable prospect of having to dress herself, as O'Brien had done a bunk. Thankfully Anna stepped into the breach, but the mere suggestion of the countess getting into a frock unaided accounted for a large share of the opener's dramatic tension.
- 9/28/2013
- by Andrew Anthony
- The Guardian - Film News
This investigation into sex-work in genteel Finchley was shocking in so many ways
• Read Hsiao-Hung Pai's report on Britain's sex trade
For most of us the world of the illegal immigrant is fairly unknown, a parallel existence that operates in the same place, but with a completely different set of characters, rules, morals etc. You probably only encounter it in the news, and then only when something bad happens. Sex: My British Job (Channel 4) punctures that world, brings it gushing rudely and suddenly into our living rooms.
The writer and journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai, posing as an illegal worker, gets a job as a maid in a couple of London's 2,000 brothels, most notably one in Finchley run by a foul-mouthed Chinese tyrant called Mary. Pai is employed to clean, cook, answer the phone and take money from customers. She works from 10am to 2am, seven days a week, for...
• Read Hsiao-Hung Pai's report on Britain's sex trade
For most of us the world of the illegal immigrant is fairly unknown, a parallel existence that operates in the same place, but with a completely different set of characters, rules, morals etc. You probably only encounter it in the news, and then only when something bad happens. Sex: My British Job (Channel 4) punctures that world, brings it gushing rudely and suddenly into our living rooms.
The writer and journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai, posing as an illegal worker, gets a job as a maid in a couple of London's 2,000 brothels, most notably one in Finchley run by a foul-mouthed Chinese tyrant called Mary. Pai is employed to clean, cook, answer the phone and take money from customers. She works from 10am to 2am, seven days a week, for...
- 9/23/2013
- by Sam Wollaston
- The Guardian - Film News
The film-maker on the evergreen Leonard Cohen, teashop lithographs and wartime architecture
Nick Broomfield is an award-winning British film-maker best known for his offbeat and sometimes controversial documentaries on a wide range of subjects, including Margaret Thatcher, Eugene Terre'Blanche, Sarah Palin, Courtney Love, Tupac Shakur and Heidi Fleiss. His feature films, made in a style he describes as "direct cinema", include Ghosts (2006) and Battle for Haditha (2008). His latest film, Sex: My British Job, in which he teams up with undercover journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai to investigate the British sex trade, is on Channel 4 on 23 September.
Theatre: The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell
I thought this was fantastic. It dealt with a really complicated subject incredibly well, with a great deal of humour, as well as having very strong dialogue and characters. It was the first time I had seen buggery on stage, which was shocking – and I don't often have...
Nick Broomfield is an award-winning British film-maker best known for his offbeat and sometimes controversial documentaries on a wide range of subjects, including Margaret Thatcher, Eugene Terre'Blanche, Sarah Palin, Courtney Love, Tupac Shakur and Heidi Fleiss. His feature films, made in a style he describes as "direct cinema", include Ghosts (2006) and Battle for Haditha (2008). His latest film, Sex: My British Job, in which he teams up with undercover journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai to investigate the British sex trade, is on Channel 4 on 23 September.
Theatre: The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell
I thought this was fantastic. It dealt with a really complicated subject incredibly well, with a great deal of humour, as well as having very strong dialogue and characters. It was the first time I had seen buggery on stage, which was shocking – and I don't often have...
- 9/23/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
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