Artemis 81 - Complete Version
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- A film by DAVID RUDKIN with Hywel Bennett
Dinah Stabb , Dan O'Herlihy featuring Sting and Anthony Steel, Margaret Whiting Roland Curram , Ingrid Pitt
A Danish museum case shattered, the pieces of a pagan statue hidden in cars on a North Sea ferry, the subsequent deaths of ferry passengers, an old musician terrified that a curse upon him will cause the devastation of the Earth.
Gideon Harlax, a successful young novelist of ' the paranormal and unexplained ', thinks he has found the material for a new book. But as Gideon coldly exploits human tragedies, angry powers from Man's ancient past are gathering.
First shown on Tuesday 29 December 1981 and I don't think it has ever been repeated.
This is a replacement for the original upload which was incomplete.
Unfortunately it turned out there was data corruption in my original file and there is about 4 minutes missing in the middle of this version.
Thanks so much for uploading this, this film is pretty hard to come by, and also hasn't been shown on TV since it's original transmission. So it's a bit of a treat to be able to watch this
Much appreciated.
I personally love it, it's got a hypnotic, poetic even esoteric feel to it, and there is enough material contained in just this film, to make several other films (so I didn't find it boring at all) also I loved that the film followed its own path and logic and I could never predict where it was going next.
Great film in my opinion, they don't make them like this anymore, and that's a shame because it's completely unique and a bit of a work of genius..
Saw this when it was broadcast - loved it! It was available on DVD, which I have.
Saw this on DVD a good decade ago or so and it is one of the most trippy things to come out of the 80s END OF. Completely mental but genius in its own way.
Just seen a copy of Pendas Fen on blu ray so off to get that as well - Rudkin was a bit of a class act
What a bizzare art piece, feels like home
Can't blieve I found this, The Experiencer and Z for Zacharia on RUclips --- you can't find these gems anywhere else!
Wow.... I remember this being a very confusing body of work.. I was only 6 years old... Let's see if it makes sense to a 45 year old... Thank you so much for the upload.
Did it make any sense?
@@galesito1733 Not really... It's bonkers chief.. I've got a better copy of it you ever fancy some sci-fi nostalgic nonsense. (My love to you and Jenny my good man) x
@@galesito1733 I'm so sorry... I'm laughing here.. My mate Is called Garth Williams I thought you were he.. (Thought it was a little strange he didn't message me personally but he's a whacky character) hahah
I heard a story at the time that one of the actors asked the writer what it was about, to which he just got a terse “Well, that’s for me to know and you to find out.”
The fictional book is called "More Things in Eartth" by G. Harlax. This smelt like an anagram. The first part is the misquote form Shakepere's "More things in Heaven and Earth" So GHARLAX HEAVEN AND give Vanga Hexahedral. Baba Vanga was a Bulgarian mystic so Vanga Hexahedral would be a great name for an Eastern Block bioweapon. No wonder there were so many people coughing to death in Liverpool and Estonian messages.
Later on the book is called LEEVIGISIETLUSAJORDIS The nearest I got was Eviliest Areligous with a few letters left over.
The author uses different typewriter cartridges so it might actually be a substitution cypher instead.
Dennis Potter has nothing on the nutcase who wrote this.
LOL funniest comment I've read on YT in years. Only people of a certain age in the RUclips-verse will understand the irony of that joke ;-D
Many thanks for this
This is surely NOT complete - around 1.54.20 there's a crucial scene missing, the Hitchcockian scene in the cathedral: here we see the start of the scene with Bennett stepping across the cathedral floor, but then jump ahead to him and Sting in the apartment. Another version of Artemis 81 which does contain the scene is on RUclips, though with terrible picture quality unlike the good quality here but viewers need to at least cross reference the two or they''re missing a crucial sequence.
It should have a Runtime
of 3 hours 5 minutes (IMDB)
Thanks, that saved me almost three hours of searching. Shortly after that scene was filmed, I found myself able to crawl through some of the inner parts of that Cathedral without being challenged. I grew up in L8, so was watching it being built, and to this day it still terrifies me walking up the stairs to the rooftop (although I still do it cos it's well worth the trip). Always reminds me of this film, which I only saw once, on its original transmission, yet it clearly made a big impression on me. Have to watch the whole thing, so will scout around more.
I can imagine David Rudkin, Alan Garner and a bottle of single malt 🤣
This is so Lynchian in parts.
If you’re looking for Alison Hammond part - 18:00
Thank you!
thanks for uploading!
from around 1:05:47 to 1:46:59 the audio and video are slightly out of sync but one gets used to it:)
Sorry about that
@@paulmiddleton9577 no worries!
@@paulmiddleton9577 cheers. ruclips.net/video/SszG2kZa2bo/видео.html
It just adds to the general weirdness ;-D
Could the product placement be any more obvious? It was like one long commercial for IBM Selectric typewriters.
...and Sealink ferries!
now i'm confused between this and brimstone and treacle ?!
DDL is @ 1:04:15
thank you for doing gods work 🫶🏼
Ddl is 😍😍
This towers over all the rubbish that passes for tv drama these days.....from the days before woke and dramas passed by a commitee..when imagination and daring were things not to be sneered at...incomparable....people hated it because it was so different ...
David Rudkin was a radical anti-capitalist who believed in deconstructing the boundaries of gender and categories like heterosexual/homosexual. He was brilliantly "woke"..
Saw it when it was first broadcast. Thought it was absolute bollocks. On second viewing haven't changed my opinion
It was awful in 1981, and judging by the comments below it didn't improve with age
No, but it does remind me of how bonkers the 80s could be. Stefan Poliakoff anyone?
So begs the question, why did you look it up on RUclips again???
😂
@@jo6807 for the same reason people touch wet paint to see if the warning sign is accurate
Holy cow it's one of these arty farty kind of film no likey! 😨🤔