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. Davies song writing skills more than making up for the almost complete lack of dialogue. Most of the action takes place on a commuter train. 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. Return to waterloo 1985 ray davies related allmovie. Return to waterloocome dancing with the kinks dvd, 1999. Return to waterloo 1985 the songs of ray davies and the kinks underscore this offbeat account of a london businessmans morning commute. Waterloo, waterloo where will you meet your waterloo. Beverly hills cop 4 with eddie murphy is officially happening at netflix 14 november 2019 movieweb. Return to waterloo is the debut solo album by kinks leader and chief songwriter ray davies.
Ray davies dedicates waterloo sunset and days to pete quaife at glastonbury 2010 duration. Dwayne johnsons black adam movie sets release date 14 november 2019 variety film news. What real case was the film return to paradise based on. He even sets return to waterloo s narrative to the albums music, incorporating very little dialogue in the process, and as such the film suggests a visual lp. The next it deals with his return to power and preparation for the 1815 campaign. But i thought perhaps the vision of nino rota in the rose garden might help explain the failure of waterloo. Rod steiger stars as napoleon, and christopher plummer plays the duke of wellington. This complete revisionist assessment of the battle of waterloo will shake napoleonic study to its roots, challenging every previous text and atlas on the napoleonic era. My my, napoleon did surrender rather like this the impressive recreation of frances hundred days has bona fide battle scenes, but rod steiger reduces the fearless bonaparte to a.
Three of the tracks on the album release were also available in nearidentical form on the kinks 1984 release word of mouth. Return to waterloo is a slender but assured 58minute film by. Return to waterloo 1985 is a onehour musical travelogue, written and directed by ray davies. Return to waterloo 1985 stream and watch online moviefone. Return to waterloo is a 1984 british musical film written and directed by ray davies and starring tim roth, kenneth colley and claire parker. Watch return to waterloo now on your favorite device. A hypnotic journey into a mind out of control overview.
Well refund your credit card or we can credit your fandango account to use for another movie. Return to waterloo by rodney koeneke poetry foundation. A hybrid of music video and feature film, return to waterloo marks the strong directorial debut of singersongwriter ray davies, leader of the legendary british rock nroll band the kinks for. The sense of the film itself is another matter, and the particular dullness of bondarchuks attempt to translate history into cinema makes waterloo a very bad movie. Released 1985, return to waterloo stars kenneth colley, valerie holliman, dominique barnes the pg movie. Getting ready, fully edited ceremony, cocktail, intros, speeches, first dances, cake, and more drone footage depends on faa guidelines multiple cameras 1 or 2 videographers 8 hours of coverage. Return to waterloo 1984 return to waterloo 1984 user. Davies, david mingay, geoff hogg, dennis woolf, ray davies. It had quite wellknown stars in its cast and won a number of awards upon its release. Donald douglas boatright passed away peacefully on april 11, 2020 at his home in waterloo, alabama at the age of 90. Ray davies wrote some songs to accompany the story, such as return to waterloo, and voices in the dark.
The movie return to paradise is based on the story of an american college student who was imprisoned overseas for smuggling drugs. The final film in an unofficial trilogy produced by edward black before he left gainsborough, waterloo road d. Please save me series follow on book one poppy clarkson went off to university and now shes back. Shes wanting to be a science teacher and her dad, tom clarkson, has no idea that.
Enjoy a rich lineup of tv shows and movies included with your prime membership. Now the leader of the kinks makes his directorial debut with a groundbreaking and highly acclaimed film. 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. Return to waterloo ray davies, uk, 1984, 35mm, 58m 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.
The film opens with a prologue set in 1814, where napoleons remaining marshals demand his abdication, followed by his farewell to the old guard before departing for elba. The whole waterloo movie runs for a total of slightly a little more than two hours long though the russian version of the picture runs for a total of four hours. Well, because waterloo itself isnt a very good or interesting film, and if youve seen either half of war and peace youve seen the better half of waterloo. Ray davies one and only foray into filmmaking, return to waterloo is a dark cross between julien. A splendid musical drama which reflects on the fantasies and frustrations of suburban commuter ken colley. As a paratrooper, lee completed over 45 jumps, mostly from c47s. 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. The film concentrates on the events leading up to the decisive battle at waterloo where napoleon was defeated by wellington. Release return to waterloo by ray davies musicbrainz. We know life happens, so if something comes up, you can return or exchange your tickets up until the posted showtime. Runs through a beautiful stretch of greenery, around victoria lake and many water bodies, along the schneider creek and many parks. The iron horse trail is 7km of spectacular nature in waterloo which is an very busy city, it connects waterloo to kitchener. Director sergie bondarchuks epic movie about napoleons final battle will be forever doomed to be looked at askance because of its unfortunate and unintended impact on stanley kubrick, one of the twentieth centurys cinematic geniuses. The only album ever credited to kinks singersongwriterguitarist ray davies contains music from the motion picture.
Production quality is outstanding, and the music is wonderful. One of the most expensive films ever made up to that time, it was a box office failure of legendary proportions but has since gained substantially more respect as an exemplar of oldfashioned epicstyle film making. Old waterloo bridge with the bailey bridge in place the new waterloo bridge was completed in 1945 and incidently was the only london bridge to be damaged during the second world war. Sallie anne field is an actress, known for sid and nancy 1986, return to waterloo 1984 and. An unnamed traveler boards the guildfordwaterloo train and proceeds to.
Its an awkwardly selfconscious public statement about england in the 80s and the banality of the suburban everyday. Every puppy has its day, everybody has to pay everybody has to meet his waterloo now, old. The film shows the journey of a commuter from guildford to waterloo in london. Marcus college square cinema movie times showtimes and. Return to waterloo 1985 ray davies releases allmovie. The songs of ray davies and the kinks underscore this offbeat account of a london businessmans morning commute. Return to waterloo is an hourlong music video featuring a number of kinks songs and a storyline about an average, welloff englishman. Return to waterloo 1985 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Ray davies one and only foray into filmmaking, return to waterloo is a dark cross between julien temple whose film absolute beginners he would later appear in and provide some music for, a tommyera ken russell and dennis potter at his most disturbingly repressed and psychosexual. 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. It depicts the story of the preliminary events and the battle of waterloo and is famous for its lavish battle scenes. Harlan leslie thompson return to waterloo g g7 c d g c cb am look at all the people around me, same old faces joining the queue em am em c g n. Based on 10 years of research, the author has uncovered huge coverups by british politicians, military commanders and regimental authorities. The film frames the travellers commute as a critique of britains varying ideologies, which are partly represented by successive generations.
Find release information for return to waterloo 1985 ray davies on allmovie. The completed waterloo was four hours long and some of the criticisms that follow might not exist had this been the version on offer. He is preceded in death by his parents, lady goldie and james w. Read about the return to waterloo dvd and browse other dvd movies. Not far away from ray davies return to waterloo, a great song from this excellent film and cd. Waterloo road has it improved since it moved to scotland. The movie that used 15,000 real soldiers as extras. In december 1962 two of the three remaining beattie well tanks of the lswr, which had. If you know the date and time you need to travel out, but dont know when youll come back, then this is when an open return ticket could be beneficial for you.
Return to waterloo for more than 20 years ray davies has been the leading force behind one of rocks most intelligent and successful bands. Sidney gilliat, 1944 is even more lowkey than its predecessors millions like us d. Destroy all movies the complete guide to punks on film. Buddy holly movie clear lake in development variety. Donald boatright obituary florence, al the birmingham news. The 1970 war flick waterloo was a modest film, to say the least. However, it bombed at the box office when it came out and was met with a less than positive response from moviegoers and critics alike. Epic battle scenes filmed in an era that couldnt imagine using cgi like in return of the king. The second part of the dvd consists of late 80s kinks videos. Davies does occasionally drop into the film amateurish sequences that literally act out the lyrics on screen as those lyrics are being sung. 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. Tim roth, kenneth colley, claire park an unnamed traveler boards the guildfordwaterloo train.
Return to waterloo 1984 ray davies one and only foray into filmmaking, return to waterloo is a dark cross between julien temple whose film absolute beginners he would later appear in and provide some music for, a tommy era ken russell and dennis potter at his most disturbingly repressed and psychosexual. Musical drama, focusing on the life fears and hopes of one man as he journeys by train from guildford to waterloo. Return to waterloo is an insightful and witty portrayal of the modern world, as seen through the eyes of a wellrespected man as he attempts to confront reality and fantasy, love and violence. Waterloo dvd movie video at cd universe, the allies enter paris and napoleon in fontainbleau is obliged to abdicate, after heartfelt farewells to his army he is led. Ray daviess return to waterloo, his 1984 film, is a mess. Return to waterloo is a terrific soundtrack but a somewhat strange, artsy movie. Picture id required under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian children under 6 are not allowed at any showtime for an rrated film all attendees 11 and under will be charged the adult admission price. Return to waterloo, directed by davies himself in 1985, is a long form video telling the story of a middleaged commuter and his experiences with reality, fantasy, love, and violence in the modern world. Screw cgi, this war movie used 15,000 real soldiers. Dec 18, 2017 we were, of course, tempted to caption this clip as waterloo sunset but that wouldnt be strictly true. Lee henry obituary waterloo, ny finger lakes times. It is believed that this bridge was built mainly by women and for this reason it is sometimes referred to as t he ladies bridge. Youll have to complete your refund and exchange before the posted showtime indicated on your ticket.
Return to waterloocome dancing dvd ray davies songs. Now, before we get into all the details of how you can watch return to waterloo right now, here are some finer points about the rca video productions rvp musical flick. Lineup announced for 16th edition of film comment selects. Find similar and related movies for return to waterloo 1985 ray davies on allmovie. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing return to waterloo near you. After an honorable discharge from service, he returned to waterloo, where he worked for american can, and greenwood foodsbordens. 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. This dvd combines two features built around the work of ray davies and the kinks, respectively, on a single platter davies movie return to waterloo 1984, which starts the disc automatically unless one accesses the main menu manually and come dancing with the kinks, the promotional film by the kinks dating from 1986.
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. And ultimately, thats whats one of the most fascinating aspects of return to waterloo, in how davies seamlessly transitions to the role of director and shapes his artistry for a new format. Return to waterloo 1984 11011984 gb music, drama 1h user score. Find similar and related movies for return to waterloo 1985 ray davies on. 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. 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. The film is a work that never comes off as an outlier in an esteemed career, but merely another piece that fits snugly into daviess canon. Its certainly a film which has to be watched several times but you dont have to be a kinks fan to appreciate it, because the music narrates the story.