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Billy Liar review – Tom Courtenay is superb in classic study of a young man and his quixotic dreams

Courtenay gives a beautiful performance as the undertaker’s clerk who nurses preposterous ambitions. But the film is too quick to surrender them

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29

Tearing up the screen: BFI’s Rip It Up season rebels against tired teen stereotypes

Young people have chosen this six-month season, and though rebel classics such as Quadrophenia and If … are here, the picks show youth culture in flux

The Guardian - UK · Jun 27

‘It was hard not to stare at him all the time’: inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter

Best known for sitcoms Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the actor died 40 years ago during a performance of Loot, aged 57. Co-stars, colleagues and friends remember a brilliant, singular and demanding man

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2024