| Description | The boxes contain: photocopies and original newspaper and magazine reviews from 'Comrades'. full list included below.
Photocopies only: 'Budding star sees himself on screen' Dorset Evening Echo (3 Nov 1987); 'Robert Stephens and Joanna David' The Sunday Times (20 Oct 1985); 'A turnip head's guide to the ruling classes.' Midweek (27 Aug 1987); 'Martyrs in the making' Manchester Evening News (8 Oct 1987); 'Comrades' The Month (Oct 1987); 'Comrades' Nalgo Journal (Oct 1987); 'Comrades' City Limits (6 Aug 1987); 'Comrades' London Portrait (Oct 1987); 'Labour picking itself up from the election ashes' Western Morning News (8 Oct 1987); 'Soviet liberalization rewarded' The Times (4 Mar 1987); 'Uncomradely acts' (4 Mar 1987); 'back cover' Vertigo (3 Nov 2002).
Original articles (some include photocopies): 'Tolpuddle Triumph' The Guardian, pg 11 (27 Aug 1987); 'Movies: Comrades' Today, pg 27 (28 Aug 1987); 'Films: Comrades' New Australasian Express, pg 12 (27 Aug 1987); 'Tolpuddle epic...with sympathy' Evening News, pg 9 (27 Aug 1987); 'Comrades' The Sunday Telegraph, pg 13 (30 Aug 1987); 'Comrades' Daily Mail, pg 26 (28 Aug 1987); 'Tolpuddle story's bit-part stars' The Independent, pg 23 (7 Aug 1987); 'Comrades on tour' FTT, pg 3 (Oct 1987); 'Comrades' Daily Express, pg 30 (28 Aug 1987); 'History becomes myth' TES, pg 37 (11 Sep 1987); 'Comrades' The Mail on Sunday, pg 38 (30 Aug 1987); 'All in the same boat' Observer, pg 16 (30 Aug 1987); 'Comrades' The Independent (1 Sep 1987); 'Comrades' New Musical Express, pg 25 (12 Sep 1987); 'Critics' Choice for last year' The Independent, pg 27 (6 Jan 1987); 'Not convicts, but comrades' Morning Star, pg 8 (28 Aug 1987); 'British epic of visual glories' The Times, pg 14 (27 Aug 1987); 'Lantern lectures' The Independent, pg 10 (27 Aug 1987); 'Comrades' Triangle Cinema, pg 14 (20 Aug 1987); 'Comrades' Phoenix Cinema (9 Oct); 'Comrades' Monthly Film Bulletin, pg 259 (Sep 1987); 'The lanternist's tale' Sight and Sound, pg 66 (Winter 1986/87); 'Comrades' Blitz, pg 124 (Sep 1987); ICA's ten best films of 1987' Evening Standard Magazine (Dec 1987); 'Comrades' Films and Filming, pg 30 (Aug 1987); 'Comrades' City Limits Magazine, pg 24 (27 Aug 1987); 'Films' Cosmopolitan, pg 14 (Sep 1987); 'Comrades' Photoplay, pg 47 (Sep 1987); 'Comrades' Film Review, pg 43 (Sep 1987); 'It's a raggy waltz' What's On, pg 23 (27 Aug 1987); 'Critics' Choice list' Time out, pg 34 (9 Sep 1987); 'Comrades' London's Australasian Magazine, pg 32 (19 Sep 1987); 'Return of the Brit-pack' The Independent, pg 25 (16 Jan 1988); 'Fiction Free of "The Incessant Flux"' Telecine, pg 7 (Autumn 1992); 'Berlin Film Festival' Films and Filming, pg 20 (Apr 1987); Screen Online (2008); Mirror Weekend (28 Aug 1987) ['Comrades' not mentioned, shows Top Ten film releases].
Casette Recording of Kaleisoscope Radio 4 Feature on Comrades. |
| AdminHistory | Upon release 'Comrades' gained widespread recognition and acclaim. Though its West End release lasted only six weeks, it was listed in The Independent as the number one critic's choice for 1987 and in ICA's ten best films of 1987. |