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The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins
Is there an alternative to run-of-the-mill TV? The film introduces us to Peter Watkins, who for the last three decades has proven that quality TV may be made without compromise. (Icarus Films)
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The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins

2001
Documentary, History
1h 17m
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Rated 12 Feb 2018
65
71st
Many critical points are raised here, and this documentary serves to highlight the media critique underlying Watkins's COMMUNE film and his work generally. Like that film, this comes across to some extent as the relic of a moment now past, when globalisation and systemic questions were coming to the forefront, before being swamped by a new century whose founding crime would both serve as a distraction from those issues and amount to a new symptom of the irrationality produced by that system.
Rated 17 Mar 2020
40
19th
I find Watkins' process very interesting and effective, and this doc offers some insight into it. But just go to the guy's website instead. My top 3 of his films would be 'Punishment Park', 'The War Game' and 'Edvard Munch' by the way.
Rated 10 Dec 2021
70
74th
Through the presence of Watkins as well as some of the cast of ‘La Commun (Paris, 1871)’, all of whom are very thoughtful and articulate, this film does an impressive job (credit to Bowie) of confronting the viewer with the way in which MAVM (massive audiovisual media) has, and continues to, dull us with the Monoform. It’s even more depressing watching this now than it would have been at the start of the 21st Century as MAVM has taken on an even more insidious form. Watkins is one of a kind.

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