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Ron Peck on Thatcher-era thriller Empire State

Director of Nighthawks discusses overdue DVD and Blu Ray release

2 Mar 2011

It’s mad to think that Ron Peck’s Thatcherite era thriller Empire State has lain dormant for so long. Set in and around the gay clubbing scene, which at the time was exploding in vast warehouse clubs in the UK, the film easily still stands next to The…

LGBT Film Festival

London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on Tour

9 Jul 2009

FILM This year’s LLGFF contains a typically alluring mix of the classic and contemporary, the light-hearted and hard-hitting. Among the comedies, Baby Love, directed by Vincent Gareng, mines the consequences of a gay Parisian doctor’s decision to…

Nighthawks/Strip Jack Naked

Nighthawks/Strip Jack Naked

(4 stars)30 Apr 2009

DRAMA An unsung gem of 1970s indie Brit cinema (and not to be confused with the Stallone flick from 1981), Nighthawks chronicles the double life of a guarded, vulnerable and semi-closeted schoolteacher by day who spends most nights cruising bars and…

Ron Peck

Profile - Ron Peck

16 Apr 2009

Born 15 May, 1948, South London Background Even in his bookish, middle-class youth the now-sexagenarian Peck was determined to become a filmmaker. ‘It was three strands that made cinema very vital and alive for me,’ he says, citing as major…

Fighters •••• & Real Money •••

Fighters •••• & Real Money •••

8 Jan 2009

SPORT/BOX SET Ron Peck’s 1991 documentary on boxing is a romantic, idealised, even sentimental portrayal of a sport often denounced as brutal and barbaric. Die-hard lovers of boisterous fight night atmosphere may be baffled: any action in the ring…

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