The movie that used 15,000 real soldiers as extras. Especially memorable is the moment when the emperor walks alone to face his former soldiers, now under orders to kill him, and through sheer bravery and. Ray davies wrote some songs to accompany the story, such as return to waterloo, and voices in the dark. All of the kinks appear on the album with the exception of dave davies. Written and directed by ray davies type of release.
Return to waterloo is a 1984 british musical film written and directed by ray davies and starring tim roth, kenneth colley and claire parker. Return to waterloo 1985 ray davies releases allmovie. Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror napoleon bonaparte and his army confront the british at the battle of waterloo. The soundtrack was provided by members of the kinks, who released an album return to waterloo in connection with it albeit without lead guitarist dave davies who refused to. Ray davies of the kinks, wellrespected as one of rocks best storytellers, makes his filmmaking debut as director, writer and composer of return to waterloo. Surely from the editing in the film release would suggest there was more footage available. Original 1985 return to waterloo one sheet movie poster the etsy. Overview of return to waterloo, 1985, directed by ray davies, with kenneth colley, valerie holliman, dominique barnes, at turner classic movies. Return to waterloo is an hourlong music video featuring a number of kinks songs and a storyline about an average, welloff englishman. This frightened the financial backers of kubricks film and they pulled out at the last minute scrapping the shoot. Tim roth, kenneth colley, claire park an unnamed traveler boards the guildfordwaterloo train. Return to waterloo 1984 full movie download full hd youtube.
This hourlong feature is a unique approach to the synthesis of music, video and cinema. Watch return to waterloo full movie in hd visit movie 190040 a man taking the train to work one morning is overcome by melanc. He was strolling beneath a balcony that could have been used for romeo and juliet, and was about to be, and he was twirling a rose and humming a tune beneath his breath. Find similar and related movies for return to waterloo 1985 ray davies on allmovie. Released 1985, return to waterloo stars kenneth colley, valerie holliman, dominique barnes the pg movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 0 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic.
One of the biggest projects in a career full of big projects, this 1985 film produced for british tv was. The film shows the journey of a commuter from guildford to waterloo in london. However, to the best of the authors knowledge, the full version has never been released in the west, and the film must therefore stand or fall by the decisions of its editors. Screw cgi, this war movie used 15,000 real soldiers. Return to waterloo is a slender but assured 58minute film by ray davies of the. Return to waterloo by rodney koeneke poetry foundation. An unnamed traveler boards the guildfordwaterloo train and proceeds to daydream about his life and of having interactions with his fellow passengers. Return to waterloo is the debut solo album by kinks leader and chief songwriter ray davies. The songs are performed dennis potter style enroute on the train. The completed waterloo was four hours long and some of the criticisms that follow might not exist had this been the version on offer. Winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Dodici canzoni per voce di bambino, corno inglese, due clarinetti, clarinetto basso, pianoforte, organo hammond.
Epic battle scenes filmed in an era that couldnt imagine using cgi like in return of the king. Return to waterloo is a film written and directed by davies depicting the daydreams and nightmares of a commuter taking a onehour train trip from the london suburbs to waterloo train station. Starring bondarchuk as well, the film was an international sensation when it was released, winning the oscar for best foreign language film and being entered in the cannes film festival. The 1970 war flick waterloo was a modest film, to say the least.
Return to waterloo embraces ray davies satirical and occasionally comical view of modern society, as reflected in over thirty albums over a remarkable twentyfive years with the kinks. Return to waterloo 1985 ray davies related allmovie. Three of the tracks on the album release were also available in nearidentical form on the kinks 1984 release word of mouth. Ray daviess return to waterloo, his 1984 film, is a mess. Marcus college square cinema movie times showtimes and. Waterloo sunset is a song by british rock band the kinks. Also the waterloo dvd i have is a vast improvement on the vhs tape. Where the song has the simplicity and mystery of a parable, the film spins out a tedious day in the life story about a middleaged middle manager, who may or may not be a serial rapist, coming home on. Franco zeffirelli was strolling alongside, nodding with excitement and saying, yes.
A feeling of possible impending horror is created by repeated newspaper images of a rapist on the loose, a man who closely resembles the hero of the story. A hypnotic journey into a mind out of control overview. Kubrick was all set to begin filming napoleon when waterloo was released and bombed. The littleseen first and only film by ray davies, songwriter and lead singer of the kinks, is an offbeat musical that takes off from and expands the possibilities of the thennewly emergent musicvideo format while revisiting many of the themes of daviess songs of modern discontent and nostalgia. In short, it was supposed to be a kinks soundtrack album to go with a short film written and directed by ray. Music from the motion picture return to waterloo 1985 rdd vocals, guitars, synthesizers ian gibbons synthesizers, keyboards jim rodford bass guitar. Its an awkwardly selfconscious public statement about england in the 80s and the banality of the suburban everyday. An unnamed traveler boards the guildfordwaterloo train and proceeds to. It had quite wellknown stars in its cast and won a number of awards upon its release. Release return to waterloo by ray davies musicbrainz. According to ray davies, dave davies refused to perform on the album. Unfortunately it is still the same length as the vhs version, so we will have to keep hoping somebody eventually finds the missing bits. Ray davies of the kinks, well respected as one of rocks best storytellers, makes his film making debut as director, writer and composer of return to waterloo. What we need is someone to film a remake fitting for the 200th anniversary in the summer of 2015.
Return to waterloo 1985 the songs of ray davies and the kinks underscore this offbeat account of a london businessmans morning commute. A man played by kenneth colley boards a commuter train and reads his newspaper, glancing at a story in which a man who looks just like him is wanted for a brutal rape. Original 1985 return to waterloo one sheet movie poster. Most of the action takes place on a commuter train. Ray davies, leader of the group the kinks and one of the most wellrespected songwriters in the history of british rock, made his directorial debut with this film produced for british television. Return to waterloo 1985 is a onehour musical travelogue, written and directed by ray davies. Waterloo, released in 1970, is a war movie that had some pretty big stars, and also won a few awards.
Digital projection, game room, listening devices, party room, stadium seating, wheelchair accessible. In the end we used a tapedelay echo, but it sounded new because nobody had done it since the 1950s. Musiche di scena per larialda di giovanni testori, 1960 10. Instead of dialogue, the story is told through music and lyrics. I met nino rota once in a moonlit garden some 40 miles from rome. The format allows davies to write a series of storysongs, including going solo. Waterloo starts out well, showing napoleons abdication to elba in 1814 and subsequent return in 1815. The line between film making and rock music gets finer all the time, as evidenced by return to waterloo, a 60 minute feature written and directed by the kinks ray davies. With tim roth, kenneth colley, claire parker, ray davies. The only album ever credited to kinks singersongwriterguitarist ray davies contains music from the motion picture. Find release information for return to waterloo 1985 ray davies on allmovie. However, it bombed at the box office when it came out and was met with a less than positive. One of tim roths early roles is in this film playing a young punk see more. Davies, david mingay, geoff hogg, dennis woolf, ray davies.
Return to waterloo seems every bit as disillusioned with the times as the central character,from the punks to the greedy businessmen the film holds them all in contempt,the only character return to waterloo seems to have total sympathy for is the travellers wife who believes her husband is having an affair and is the subject of the touching. Dennis woolf a waterloo films production for rca video productions in association with channel four. Date label number country format running time 1985 rcacolumbia pictures home video 60525 usa vhs 60 minutes. The film begins with napoleon rod steiger being exiled to elba, only to escape and return triumphant to paris less than a year later, where he. After war and peace, bondarchuks directorial career sputtered, but did have one more minor success, waterloo 1970, which was wellreceived in the united. An unnamed traveler boards the guildford waterloo train and proceeds to daydream about his life and of having interactions with his fellow passengers. Return to waterloo 1984 11011984 gb music, drama 1h user score. A man taking the train to work one morning is overcome by melancholy memories and morbid fantasies.