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Awesome drama. Top tier acting, script & production. Nostalgia, eccentric characters & gripping stories all coalesce in a unique production. A photographic archive is being shut down without notice & the awesome staff roll out the stories & lives of those whose photos fill the archive. You have the character development of the staff (wouldn't you just love to work there?), & all the adventures, misadventures, tragedies, romance of those whose images have been captured in time. Who can bare to be forgotten? Touching, amusing, whimsical at points just to keep it light. The importance of remembrance. Poliakoff's masterpiece (in an already fabulous body of great works). Awesome stable of actors here: Lindsay Duncan (always intriguing to watch), Timothy Spall, Billie Whitelaw (who can forget her mad nanny in 'The Omen'?), Emilia Fox, Andy Serkis (LOTR Gollum), & Liam Cunningham (the chemistry between his & Duncan's characters is something else). 10/10 & really worth watching the whole 3 episodes in a binge.
How painfully difficult, impossible deciding which pictures to save. I'll never understand human priorities. How could any "progressive" educational establishment teach more than that collection of images? I agree wholeheartedly with the American bloke regarding the Timothy Spall character, Oswald - Insufferable and what the hell is he wearing on his feet?!!
I saw this in 1999....and it has stayed in my mind ever since, I've recommended it to so many people.. And find myself now sending this link to my 18 & 19 Yr old daughters, who I know will love this in equal measure...The cast are phenomenal, and anything Stephen Poliakoff writes just shines with brilliance 👏👏
Oh my goodness!!! What an amazing movie. What superb acting by each and everyone involved. We salute them. Greetings from Australia. Please keep them coming.
17 - 19 May 2024 I watched the three parts of "Shooting the Past". Too early to tell if it changed my life. I am one month short of 75 years of age. "Shooting the Past" has settled me right down.
24 years on this should get another airing! Thank you so much. I loved it and still do. Back in the day before the world went crazy and every programme has to make a political statement! Everyone I knew said it was too slow but that's the whole reason for it's charm. The gradual build of getting to know the characters to the jaw-dropping end.
What cld she possibly want to know about Oswald that'd be worth all this trouble? I mean nothing he said i found was really mind blowing. And, I've e found with OD's, yu either die or recover-not linger. Atleast with opiods. But great actress!! Only reason i watched
It’s a parable of modern life. Look at how you can interpret the title. “Shooting the past” it can mean A) by taking photographs we are capturing memories which is our history, or B) we destroy the past and destroy who we are. Bring them together and the message of this drama is clear: recognise and come to terms with who you are in-order to move forward.
I saw this series about 20 years ago and have never forgotten it. It is haunting, evocative and completely fabulous in so many ways. Many thanks for posting it. :)
Every building is historic to some extent It was owned by an insurance company so who knows they could have gone to funct sold it at auction you never know
I've enjoyed this immensely, even though episode 2 is proving elusive. I shall keep searching. Everyone in the cast is brilliant and I'm a great admirer of Poliakoff. Thank you very much, Media Bull.
This was splendid, I cannot remember enjoying a film/series so much in (literally) years; perhaps decades. Thank-You So So-Much for uploading it!!! (It’s going in My ‘Great-Movies’ Collection, and I’ll definitely be recommending it whenever possible.) Note, Re Timothy Spall: Phenomenal performance; his best Work, in My opinion. I think that the reason Timothy was able to play this Role so wonderfully is that the Character is just like him; brilliant, belligerent, creative, obstinate, maddening, endearing, and separate/alone. Watching the movie I couldn’t help thinking that (although for different reasons)… TS is very-likely to end his own Life someday; I sense so much pain and loneliness from him, it’s there in every role. I’m praying that He’ll learn (in time) how very precious and special he is as an Individual; just as himself. Some of Us burn-brightly and love passionately - fighting- hard against a Sea of pain, loneliness, isolation, etc. My Heart breaks for Those who (like Robin Williams) are engulfed, and who finally choose to end their lives in order to escape the Trauma. Thank-You for this!!
S1.E3 ∙ Part Three Marilyn arrives just in time to save Oswald's suicide but he is in a deep coma. With time running out and Anderson wavering the team work on a photo montage about a lost family secret. Anderson changes his mind, saving the archive. - imdb
S1.E2 ∙ Part Two Marilyn has a week to find a buyer, for the collection of photographs, on the condition that Oswald leaves the building and not come back. No buyer is able to take an archive of this size. Oswald decides to take drastic action. - imdb
Shooting the Past (TV Mini Series 1999 A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection and discovers that the library employees will resort to anything to thwart him. - imdb 8.5 S1.E1 ∙ Part One The staff of the Fallon Photo Library and Collection are left reeling when their new Americn owners decide to break up the archive and sell off the cherished Man Ray photographs. Archivist Oswald Bates is determined to fight to the end.
After his attempt when laying in hospital bed when the camera zooms in on his face I think his head should be in the wax museum..he just has a good neck and head you know😂
