Continuing the season of documentaries by the late innovative director.
Soho Story
This was one of Denis Mitchell 's first films. Shot on 35mm film for the BBC in 1959 during the days of steam television, it is a tour of old-time bohemian Soho with Max the busker.
Followed by Quentin Crisp
Made for Granada Television in 1970 as one of a series of 'personal portraits', this is an intimate look at Quentin Crisp, the 'self-made work of art', shortly before he became world famous. It represents a departure from Mitchell's more familiar style of film-making in that it is a continuous interview with a single subject and is shot on location in Crisp's tiny flat. It was also the director's first foray into colour - which may account for the subject's frequent changes of clothes.