Brixton in Movies [Archive]

just_andrew

24-04-2006, 17:48

Just watched Alfie again last night. (old version)

Anyone recognise Atlantic Road? It looks a million times different. Anyone se it??

Apart from SW9 does anyone know any other movies that show off the old town?

Stobart Stopper

24-04-2006, 17:53

Long Good Friday possibly, where Harold goes to visit the grass.

gaijingirl

24-04-2006, 18:02

There's one on at the moment called Rolling with the Nines (http://www.rollinwiththenines.com/) which is set in Brixton - but it's supposed to be a bit rubbish.... :(

Still reckon I'll go and watch it though.

editor

24-04-2006, 18:12

Just watched Alfie again last night. (old version)

Anyone recognise Atlantic Road? It looks a million times different. Anyone se it??
Extremely loud cough!
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/atlantic6.html
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/station6.html

corporate whore

24-04-2006, 18:14

Long Good Friday possibly, where Harold goes to visit the grass.

Wot, Errol the ponce, from Brixton?

Quality film..

just_andrew

24-04-2006, 18:54

Extremely loud cough!
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/atlantic6.html
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/station6.html

WELL I DIDNT KNOW DID I? :confused:

The place looks sooo much different.Must be the lack of Garbage on the streets.

rigsby

26-04-2006, 21:00

Sure that Rude Boy by the Clash featured Brixton. In fact, thinking about it, sure it had the market in it.

Also maybe a late 70's/early 80's film called Babylon. Saw it on Beeb 2 when I were just a little Rigsby. Had that Jacko from Brushstrokes and the Jif ads in it. Never seen it on telly again. Love to watch it again, so anyone with any info on it, or either of them films, for that matter.......

supercity

27-04-2006, 06:54

There's a 1977 film called Black Joy, which tells the story of a black immigrant to the UK who arrives in Brixton then gets robbed. It stars Floella Benjamin (ex Play School presenter for those of a certain age) and the late Norman Beaton, of the mighty Desmond's fame.

It got a limited re-release last year, and is now on sale at Amazon on DVD for around 6.50, if anyone's interested.

isvicthere?

27-04-2006, 15:31

There's a 1977 film called Black Joy, which tells the story of a black immigrant to the UK who arrives in Brixton then gets robbed. It stars Floella Benjamin (ex Play School presenter for those of a certain age) and the late Norman Beaton, of the mighty Desmond's fame.

It got a limited re-release last year, and is now on sale at Amazon on DVD for around 6.50, if anyone's interested.

It also featured the guy who later played Kelvin in eastEnders as a very feisty 7-year-old.

isvicthere?

27-04-2006, 15:33

[QUOTE=rigsby]Sure that Rude Boy by the Clash featured Brixton. In fact, thinking about it, sure it had the market in it.

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There's also a scene in Brady's (when it was still the Railway) where Ray Gange asks Joe Strummer what his "Brigade Rosse" t-shirt means, and he says it's a pizza restaurant. I first saw the film in Wiesbaden, and that made the German audience laugh out loud.

Skim

27-04-2006, 16:02

There's a really bad scene in Lost where Charlie leaves his brother's swish Britpop-style flat and walks out into an edgy urban wasteland where people are warming thier hands around open fires. The camera pulls back and... Charlie walks into a fake Brixton tube station :D

supercity

27-04-2006, 23:04

I've also just half-remembered a late 1980s male-female duo cop show on TV - she black, he white (high concept) - that was set in Brixton, largely in and around the Fridge, I think. Can't for the life of me remember the name.